La La Liberte: Revolution in France!

Thursday September 26

What we will be learning in this unit:

French SocietyKing Louis XVI: The “Sun King”Marie Antoinette: “Off with her head”Viva la revolution! Crisis, conflict, the fall of the Bastile and Revolutionary WarsDeclaration of the Rights of ManThe Reign of Terror…. And later, Napolean!

KWL ChartWhat I KNOW What I WANT to know What I LEARNED

WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?

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Setting the Scene

France was not like England was in the last unitIn England people had never really accepted the concept of the Divine Right of Kings

which is what paved the way for the reforms that we saw in our last unit

William and Mary signed the Bill of Rights and made Parliament the true government in England

Setting the Scene: France

In France, citizens didn’t have rights. France had to have a bloody revolution in order to overthrow their monarchy The French Revolution changed France FOREVER

… and it affected the rest of Europe and the development of democracy everywhere!

Setting the Scene: France

Out of touch monarchyFrench rulers had completely lost touch with their subjects

Heavily in debt, taxes were highGreat social inequalityFrance was one of the last countries in the world to still have the Feudal System (with Serfs and Manors)

Take 5!

Take 5 minutes and look through the chapter.Look at: Pictures, headings, maps etc.

What 3 things seem the most interesting to you?Come up with 5 things you want to know about the French Revolution

The Regions of France

Turn to page 57

P.58, questions 1a and 1b togetherQuestion #3 in partners

Think Pair Share!

Interpret the picture

Turn to page 59Looking at the picture, what can you tell about the people in the image?

They are peasants, but they are well-off… How can you tell?Look at the map on page 58 – where might these people have lived?

Eye witness account, page 60

Read the passage on page 60Facts and Inferences

A fact is something you know to be true (you can read the evidence in the text, for example)An inference is something that you determine after you gain knowledge from the factExample: Mrs. O’Brien is short – fact.

Mrs. O’Brien can’t reach the top shelf because she is short – inference • Come up with a list of facts and inferences from the

text!

Facts

Women and girls are without shoes or stockingsChildren have poor clothingOne third of province (“seems to be”) uncultivatedHe met a 28 year old women with 7 children

Inference

The poor seem very poorPoverty seems to be undermining the national prosperityThere appears to be widespread misery in the provinceThe government, both national and local is stupid, tyrannical and backwardWomen work much harder than the menBearing many children wears the women downThe newborn are destined to a life of servitude no better off than slaves

On your own

Read pages 59-61Take notes comparing the social structure of France at this time, to what you learned about the social structure in England

France England-information about the peasants-information about the bourgeoisie-information about aristocrats?-where did people live?

-information about the lower class-information about the middle class-information about the upper class-where did people live?

Social StructureFrance in the 1700s

Like a pyramid (draw it!) with the King, aristocrats, bourgeoisie, and peasantsThe peasants:……

Tell me about them!The bourgeoisie…. .

Tell me about them!Slums in the cities

Tell me about them!

England in the 1600sKing, Upper class, Middle Class, Lower classUpper class: nobles and wealthy people; made enough money to live very well and have a good diet and nice thingsMiddle class: merchants, blacksmiths, landowners, professionals… still often very poor and had just enough money to survivePeople lived in the country (farmers) and in cities (…)

Louis XIV: The Extravagant Sun King

Louis 14th

Does anyone know why Louis was called the Sun King?

Louis 14th

Does anyone know why Louis was called the Sun King?

It was because he associated himself with the Greek God Appollo, the Sun God. He believed he was the source of all light in the nation and the sun became a ‘mascot’ for him

LOUIS XIV

Ruled for 70 yearsIn the age of absolute monarchs Louis set the bar even higher

He saw himself as the centre of French life and culture…. He said “I AM the nation”What would people think if Stephen Harper said this?

LOUIS XIV (14)

To ensure his position as the greatest monarch in Europe, Louis built a vast palace in the village of Versailles (now known as the palace of Versailles)He forced nobles to live there with him and he became the centre of their lives

Everything they did required Louis’ approval!Nobles even had to take daily ballet lessons in order to learn how to move and gesture gracefully in the presence of the king!

Versailles

While you're living it up, some of us are starving

In France’s tax system at the time, the people with the least money paid the most

Another reason why we might say France was a backwards country?What other things did we say made France “backwards”?

Backwards France - Review

People with the least amount of money were paying the most taxesFrance still had absolute monarchs even in the 18th centuryFrench citizens had no rights, even though England had been developing democracy for centuriesFrance STILL had the feudal system (from the Medieval period!)

Louis the 14th – no friend of the church or the people

Louis involved himself in the politics of the church – he claimed that he had special rights in the Church because he was the king

He persecuted Calvinist Protestants (known as HUGUENOTS) so they left… these people were often the business people, so this cause the economy to plummet!

He tried to expand French territory and became involved in many wars

Louis the 16th …. At least he wasn’t like the 14th!

Louis 16th

Read page 64 “The Reign of Louis XVI”

Complete question #2 on page 68