Radicals, War, and Regicide

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Radicals, War, and Regicide
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Conservative

• What comes to mind when you hear this term?
• What does it mean to be conservative?
• Who or what do you associate with conservatives?

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Moderate

• What comes to mind when you hear this term?
• What does it mean to be moderate?
• Who or what do you associate with moderates?

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Radical

• What comes to mind when you hear this term?
• What does it mean to be radical?
• Who or what do you associate with radicals?

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Frances Political Spectrum
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Sans-culottes
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War

• Many European nations feared revolutions similar
  to the one in France
• Prussia Austria (the queens home country) want
  French to restore Louis power
• Radical French government declares war on Prussia

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Regicide

• What to do with Louis XVI?
• Jacobins
• King must face justice
• No need for a trial he has been overthrown
• Giordins
• King must be judged by a court
• He is a citizen like all Frenchmen
• Wanted citizens to decide whether or not Louis
  deserved the death penalty

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Regicide

• The Trial
• No one votes not guilty (691-0)
• Referendum to allow the people to decide kings
  punishment failed (424-283)
• Government votes in favor of death penalty
  (387-334)

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