1. French Revolution Unfolds
Chapter 3 Section 2
French Revolution Unfolds

2. Phases of Revolution 1789-1791 Moderate Phase (National Assembly)
Radical Phase (end of monarchy and Reign of Terror)
Directory
Age of Napoleon

3. Moderate Phase:

4. French Revolution Unfolds
Paris divides into competing FACTIONS
Moderates look to the Marquis de Lafeyette (who fought alongside George Washington)
Was the head of the National Guard
Middle Class militia organized in response to arrival of Royal troops
First to wear the “tricolor”--blue, white, and red

5. Paris Commune--more radical group
Replaced royal government in the city
Newspapers and political clubs also sprouted up. Some even more radical.

6. Pg. 115 Standards Check

7. National Assembly Acts
Nov 4 - Nobles in National Assembly agree to end their privileges (manorial dues, exclusive hunting rights, special legal status, tax exemptions)

8. Declaration of the Rights of Man (and the Citizen)
Modeled in part from American Declaration of Independence
Natural rights to “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”
All male citizens were equal before the law
Freedom of Religion
Taxed according to ability to pay

9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Olympe de Gouges (journalist) writes Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
Later in revolution many women, including Gouges, executed for expressing their views

10. Women march on Versailles
Oct 5, ,000 women march 13 miles in the rain to Versailles demanding “Bread” and that the king return to Paris
Angry with Marie Antoinette (queen) who lived in extravagance
Royal family escorted back to Paris by the angry mob where they were virtual prisoners for the next 3 years.

11. National Assembly Presses Forward
To pay off huge national debt the Assembly voted to take over and sell Church lands.
Put the French Catholic Church under state control
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Bishops and priests became elected salaried officials
Ended papal authority
Dissolved convents and monasteries

12. Widens gulf between revolutionaries in Paris and peasantry in the provinces

13. Constitution of 1791 Creates a limited monarchy
Creates a new Legislative Assembly
Make laws
Collect taxes
Created equality before the law
Ended Church interference

14. 118 - Standards Check

15. Louis tries to escape
Is recognized and captured a few miles from Austrian border
Is seen as a traitor to the revolution

16. Rulers fear spread of Revolution
Call revolutionary ideas and violence “the French plague”
Fear is spread by EMIGRES

17. Declaration of Pilnitz
August King of Prussia and emperor of Austria (Marie Antoinette’s brother) threatened to intervene to protect French monarchy.
France prepared for war

18. Radicals take over
Sans-Culottes, working class revolutionary group, demand a republic
Found support in the new Legislative Assembly among the Jacobins-- revolutionary political club made of lawyers and intellectuals
Eager to spread revolution and defeat tyranny abroad, radical groups take over and the Assembly declares war on Austria then Prussia and other European states.

19. Pg 120 (1-2)