Chapter Outline

Chapter 20

The French Revolution and the

Napoleonic Era

1789–1815

Civilization in the West, Seventh Edition by Kishlansky/Geary/O’Brien

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I. The French Revolution and the Fall of the MonarchyII. Experimenting with Democracy, 1792–1799III. The Reign of Napoleon, 1799–1815

Chapter 20: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815

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I. The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy

A. The Crises of Eighteenth-Century France

Louis XV Seven Years’ War

Louis XVI War of American Independence

1788, Louis XVI calls Estates General

B. Convening the Estates General

Cahiers de doleances

Spring, 1789 - economic crisis

May 1789, Estates General meet

The Crisis in Voting by Estate Sieyés - leads Third Estate

> National Assembly, June 17, 1789Oath of the Tennis Court

Revolutionary France

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I. The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy

C. The Outbreak of Revolutionary Action in 1789

Louis XVI calls troops

The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789

The Marquis de Lafayette, the National Guard

Peasant Revolt

Night of August 4, 1789

October 1789 - Women to Versailles

Revolutionary France

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I. The French Revolution

and the Fall of the Monarchy

D. Declaring Political Rights

Constitution of 1791Civil Liberties

(1802 - Slavery reestablished)

Women’s RightsCondorcet

Chapter 20: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815

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I. The French Revolution and the Fall of the

Monarchy

D. Declaring Political Rights

Constitution of 1791

Civil Liberties(1802 - Slavery

reestablished)Women’s Rights

Condorcet

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I. The French Revolution and the Fall of the Monarchy

E. The Trials of Constitutional Monarchy

Départements

The Counter-Revolution1790 - church lands confiscated

Civil Constitution of the ClergyEmigrésFiscal Crisis

assignats

1792, War with Austria

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II. Experimenting with Democracy, 1792–1799

A. The Revolution of the People1792

Sans-culottes, attack Tuileries

B. “Terror Is the Order of the Day”Convention

Louis XVI condemnedJanuary, 1793, executed

National ConventionJacobin Ascendancy

Girondins Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre and the Reign of TerrorCommittee of Public Safety, 1793

Cult of the Supreme Being Vendeé

Women Olympe de Gouges

The Thermidorean Reaction

C. The End of the RevolutionThe Directory

Revolutionary France

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III. The Reign of Napoleon, 1799–1815

A. Bonaparte Seizes Power

DirectoryNapoleon to Italy, Egypt, Syria

First ConsulConcordat of 18011802 - Consul for Life

B. Napoleon at War with the European Powers

War, ca. 1803-1814Austria, 1805Prussia, 1806Russia, 1807Spain, 1808

Continental SystemBritain, naval blockade

Napoleon’s Empire

Chapter 20: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815

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III. The Reign of Napoleon, 1799–1815

C. The First Empire and Domestic Reforms

Emperor, December 1804

Science and Economic Reforms

New Legal SystemNapoleonic Code Plebiscites

D. Decline and Fall

The Peninsular War (1808–14)

Invasion of Russia, 1812

Battle of Nations Prussia, Britain, Sweden, Russia,

Austria 1814, Battle of Nations at Leipzig

Exile to Elba

1815, 100 DaysWaterloo, June 1815

Chapter 20: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815

Week of 11/11• Study PP and comment on

assigned portion of lesson. • Complete in-class activities• Quiz: Friday, 11/18Notes :

1.View Bucholz lectures, 19-212.Historyteacher.net: #29-343.Read Neo-Classical Art, (photocopies) Annotated Mona Lisa4.View Longitude5.Diary of a Napoleonic Foot soldier*

Be prepared to discuss 12/17

and RemindersSat. Seminar, Nov. 19Sat. Seminar, Dec. 17*Paper due: Dec. 12/24

Mid-term Exam: Sat., Jan. 7

Chapter 20: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815

1. Read Chapter 212. Complete 1 part of collaborative study

guide. 3. E-mail to designated coordinator, who

will provide specific instructions.

Coalbrookdale by Night is an 1801

painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

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