La Rvolution Franaise

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La Révolution Française

• By Ari, Tennessee, and Joey

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Causes

• American Revolution
• Crop Failures and Economic Difficulties
• Bourgeoisie
• Peasants
• Philosophes

Gilbert de La Fayette, Honorary American citizen
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Estates General

• 3 Estates (political classes)
• June 17, 1789 - 3rd estate secedes and becomes
  the National Assembly

Clergy
Nobility
Everyone else
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The National Assembly A Timeline

• - 17 June 1789 -- Third Estate Secedes

- 20 June 1789 -- Tennis Court Oath
- 23 June 1789 -- Third Estate rejects Kings
proposal of only casting one vote
- 27 June 1789 -- King orders Clergy and Nobility
to join National Assembly
- 7 July 1789 -- National Constituent Assembly -
30 members appointed to draft a Constitution
- 9 July 1789 -- National Constituent Assembly
proclaims it has the power to make laws
- 14 July 1789 -- Fall of the Bastille
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Riots In Paris!

• Rally at Hotel de Ville.
• Camille Desmoulins

• Place Vendome
• Stealing arms at Hotel de Invalides

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The Storming of the Bastille14 July 1789

• Prison. 7 inmates. 144 guards and staff.
• Siege of Bastille
• Negotiations of Surrender

• DeLaunay and Prevot deMarchands assassinated.
• 98 rebels, 1 guard - killed.
• Marked the beginning of French Revolution

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Louis XVI
1754-1793
King 1774-1792

• Married Marie Antoinette at 16.
• Lived secluded from Paris at Palace of Versailles
• Indecisive, unhappy ruling France
• Supported American Revolution
• After Bastille, withdrew troops, reinstated
  Necker
• Forced from Versailles to Paris
• Fled from Paris
• Imprisoned August 10, 1792.
• Tried, convicted, sentenced to execution by
  guillotine 21 January 1793.

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Marie Antoinette

• Affair of the Diamond Necklace
• Comte de Mirabeau
• Antoine Barnave

Marie Antoinette
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Robespierre,Danton, and the Jacobin Party

• Seen as the peoples voice
• Strongly rooted around upholding the Rights of
  Man
• Reign of Terror
• Overthrew the corrupt govt. and fended off
  Austria
• Beheaded anyone who breathed a word about treason

Robespierre
Danton
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G u i l l o t i n e
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