1. Phase I of the Revolution June of 1789-Spring of 1792 Focused on the political ideals of the Enlightenment Goal is a constitutional monarchy. A king who is controlled by a representative assembly. “Started by the patricians and finished by the plebeians”

2. For example… The Bastille

3. and the March on Versailles

4. The Great Fear Peasant uprisings in the countryside National Assembly eliminates the privileges of the nobility and clergy (no more tithe!), saying that the feudal order is dead

5. Ideas of the Enlightenment Fueled by power of the Paris mob and the peasants.

6. Create a new government with the Constitution of 1791 Based on the ideas of the Enlightenment…The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Constitutional Monarchy New court system with jury trial Confiscation of Church lands, made them employees of the government The metric system Guillotine

7. New Departments

8. Challenges for the new government Foreign Problem reaction fueled by expats Threats from Austria and Prussia Flight to Varennes June of 1791 Declaration of War against Austria and Prussia April of 92. Unmet expectations of the common man Increasing radicalization led by the Jacobins

9. All of this culminates…. In the attack on the King.

10. Phase II: The Radical Revolution So…what is different about this part of the Revolution? True threats from the war and counter-revolution Loss of any connection to the royal family The rise of the radical Jacobins The sans-culottes

11. The Convention Republic declared 9/22/1792 and the National Assembly is renamed the Convention September Massacres Louis XVI executed on 1/21/1793 War is going worse…now fighting Austria, Prussia, Holland, Spain and Great Britain. Huge economic pressure and peasant revolts against the revolution Something must be done!

12. July 1793 Jacobins, with the support of the sans-cullotes, take over the Convention Create the Committee of Public Safety to deal with the internal and external crises. 12 men led by Maximilian Robespierre.

13. Reign of Terror Begins

14. “Revolutionary government until there is peace.” 17, 0000, 40, 000 or 100, 000+ die, 800 a month in Paris at the height in Spring of 94 8% Nobles 14% Bourgeois 6% Clergy 70% Peasants

15. Creating the Republic of Virtue Eliminate any remnants of the old ways…starting with Christianity Religion of Reason New Calendar Years Months Days

16. There are successes… Internal dissent is crushed Army doing far better against external enemies. (they have a new general….Napoleon!)

17. The French people have had enough….Phase III! Thermidor Reaction. The Fall of Robespierre Constitution of 1795 The Directory Elections of 3-97…lots of constitutional monarchists are elected. What will happen……..