1. The Second Revolution

2. Background (1st revolution)
National Assembly:
Abolition of special privileges: Tithe, guild restrictions on trade, class distinction
Declaration of Rights of Man: Men are born free, all citizens entitled to a voice in making laws
Financial: Seized church land, sold land to peasants cheaply
Religious: Civil Constitution of the Clergy: Clergy were paid by gov, church is organ of gov

3. Background (1st revolution)
National Assembly:
Constitution of 1791: Limited monarchy, legislative assembly passes laws, Assembly members were landowners elected by taxpayers
N.A. opposed by Girondists, Jacobins both favored a republic
N.A. opposed by Louis XVI, devout Catholics, French nobles, foreign monarchs- in favor of old regime
Austria and Prussia invade France in 1792

4. Start of the 2nd revolution
As Austria and Prussia gained ground, the kings loyalties were suspect…Assembly refuses to act
August 10, Parisians, incited by Jacobin club radicals, storm the royal palace at the Tuileries and capture the king
Assembly lost power and the National Convention is elected to draw up new constitution and put Louis on trial…heads role.
Establishment of the First Republic of France

5. Political Factions Jacobin club Parisian radicals
Helped organize the storming of the royal palace
Controlled the National Convention
Further divided into two groups: Girondins, Mountain

6. Political Factions Girondins The Mountain The Plain
Moderate deputies of the convention
Resisted Parisian radicalism
Called the Mountain tyrants
Advocated provincial liberty and laissez-faire economics
The Mountain
Radicals from Paris
Called the Girondins weak and compromising
Included Marat and Robespierre
The Plain
In the middle

7. Crisis Hits Crises: Invasion, civil war, and failing economy Reaction:
Military draft,
fixed bread prices,
Sans-Cullottes get Girondins expelled from Convention,
Law of Maximums and Law of Suspects

8. The Convention drafts a new, radically democratic constitution in 1793 but it is suspended until peace is achieved
All authority given to Robespierre and the Comite de Salut Public - The Committee of Public Safety
All those rights of man and stuff…? Suspended until the end of the Revolution
Robespierre’s Justification of terror