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French revolution
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The French Revolution
He was the last king of
France and he wanted to be like his grandfather, but
he couldn´t because he was not a good and loved
king.
King Louis XIV
King Louis XVI
She was from another country and became
Queen of France when she married Louis XVI and they
always had big events. People disliked this and also that she was from
another country.Once she was obliged to leave France and all her
possessions walking naked along a tunnel and then
put on other clothes as if she was a new person.
Marie Antoinette
One problem was France’s unequal social hierarchy that was made up of three classes -
The First Estate was made up of religious people, they were less than 1%. They paid 2% of the taxes.
They didn´t want the middle class to have more money because that would mean sharing the their
economic and political power.
France’s unequal social hierarchy was made up of three classes were called estates-
The Second Estate was made up of Nobles they were the 2% of the population. They didn´t pay
taxes. They were very rich and near the king.
The Third Estate included poor peasants but also the well-educated middle class (bourgeoisie)
This group paid …50% of their income in taxes
The Third Estate made up 97% of the population
Social tensions were made worse by the financial crisis in the 1770s & 1780s
Where did the missing money come from?Food
The influence of the American Revolution
The French revolution claimed ¨freedom, brotherhood and equality¨. And after that France became a Republic where the people had rights.
The American revolution was inspired in the French and organized themselves as a Republic
shortly after.
During the Estates-General, the First & Second Estates voted to increase taxes on the Third Estate
The First & Second Estates decided to vote by order rather than by head
vote per estate
The first and second Estates wanted to
increase the taxes on the third Estate.
The vote counted as 2.The third Estate wanted to vote by head not as 1
by personThe first and second
Estates didn´t want to count the third estate
vote per person because they were
more and they would win.
Finally the first and second Estate won
2-1
The March to Versailles
Poor women weren´t able to buy food so the marched to the royal palace at Versailles. They forced the king and his family to come back to Paris. The king was in their power. The king and his family lived for one year like prisoners in Paris.
The Fall of the Bastille
One morning the people who were very angry opened fire against the Bastille but
king Louis XVI was not very worried because he thought it was just a protest.
The National Assembly wrote their revolutionary ideals in the Declaration _of the rights of men
and Citizen
In 1789, the National Assembly swore to a
Tennis Court Oath promising a new
constitution & limitations on the king’s power
What should the National Assembly do to solve France’s problems?
Fearing the spread of France’s revolutionary ideas, Austria & Prussia
assembled armies to restore France’s
absolute monarchy
They should have to solve the economic crisis, the political luck of power and the social poverty.
The National Assembly cut the heads off traitors because it was an easy and less painfull way to kill a person.
The slogan of the French Revolution became:
Liberty ------------Equality------------Brotherhood------------------
In 1793, Maximilien Robespierre gained control
of the National Convention
From 1793 to 1794, Robespierre executed
40,000 “traitors” during an era known as the
---Reign –of--- terror ----------
The Reign of Terror ended when French citizens turned on
Robespierre and cut of his head..
The revolution came to an end in 1795, but France was in chaos
By: Jazmin de Virgiliis