The French Revolution, 1789 - 1814:Moderate Stage

AP European HistoryAndrostic2013-2013

OverviewThe French Revolution is one of the transformational events in European historyIt signals the end of the Ancien Regime and the arrival of the issues that are going to dominate Europe for the two centuriesTopics

Background to the RevolutionRevolution

Background to the Revolution

The Three EstatesClergyNobility

Bourgeoisie, Artisans, Peasantry

1%5%

94%

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Agrarian System• Peasantry• Rights of the

lord– Hunting rights– Banalities– Police– Property fees

• 40% of land owned by peasants

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Revolution

Financial Crisis

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

• Debt• Revenue

shortfalls• Failure of the

Maupeou parlements

• Calonne plan

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Estates General• Structure• Cahiers de

Doleances• Meeting

National Assembly

Tennis Court Oath

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Problems of the Peasantry

Poor Harvest in 1788 caused a rise in bread pricesEffect of the National Assembly

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Storming of the Bastille

July 14, 1789

Great Fear of 1789

Reforms of the National Assembly

JacobinsAbolished the guildsDeclaration of the Rights of Man

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March on Versailles

Civil Constitution of 1790

Bishops electedToleration of all faithsNo papal authoritySalaried from the stateThe pope repudiated all of this!

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Constitution of 1791• Unicameral

legislature• Weak king• Abolished provinces &

established departments

• Constituent Assembly disbands

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Flight to Varennes

International Impact of the Revolution

Edmund Burke, 1729 - 1797

Other states slow to respondConservative reaction

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The Coming of War

Emperor Leopold II

King Frederick William II of Prussia

• Arrest of the King!

• Declaration of Pillnitz

• Enraged the French & they declared war on Austria

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SummaryThe first phase of the revolution began over debt problems of the government, but as the French government tried to fix that problem, resentments of the old regime explodedThe revolutionaries in this phase were filled with Enlightenment ideas and tried to create a constitutional monarchy based on those ideas