The French Revolution and Its Impact

Readings: Spodek, pp. 539-547

France is a Mess!! France was involved

in the American Revolution from 1778-1783.

Government was unwieldy.

Weather was a big problem especially in 1788.

King Louis XVI He agrees to recall the

Estates General

Spring of 1789 there was the Cahiers de Doleances.

May 5, 1789 The Estates meet in Versailles.

From May 5-June 17, 1789: The Third Estate boycotts the Estates General

The Revolution of 1789

The Bastille is stormed on July 14, 1789.

“Freeing the Enslaved”

Timeline of the French Revolution (continued)

Peasants Revolt Weathervanes Night of August 4 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

(August 27,1789) March on Versailles Constitution Abolished Ecclesiastical Orders Growing Power of Clubs

Timeline Continued

Flight of King The Legislative

Assembly War of the First

Coalition Violence in Paris The National

Convention Monarchy Abolished

Committee of Public Safety becomes all powerful

Rules by General Will Robespierre is in the

center. They abolish slavery

Robespierre

Timeline continued

Constitution of Year III

The Terror Fall of Robespierre The Directory Napoleon

Napoleon and Louis XVIII

Napoleon makes himself emperor

Napoleonic Law Code Louis XVIII reigns as

a constitutional monarch

St. Helena Island

Who Won and Who lost?

Rich Males in the short run

All males in the long run

Maybe peasants or at least some peasants in some places

Women Agrarian Worker Slaves after Napoleon

restores slavery The nobility who left

France The Church