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France Under Maximilien Robespierre – 1791 to 1794. 7.3 PETS – MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE, JACQUES DANTON, JACOBINS/GIRONDISTS m ore coming tomorrow…. National Convention. France declares itself a republic on 9/21/92 Abolishes monarchy Goals? L.A. renamed National Convention - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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FRANCE UNDER MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE – 1791 TO 17947.3
PETS – MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE, JACQUES DANTON, JACOBINS/GIRONDISTS
more coming tomorrow…
NATIONAL CONVENTION
France declares itself a republic on 9/21/92 Abolishes monarchy Goals?
L.A. renamed National Convention
Jacobin factions The Mountain
Danton and Robespierre The Girondists
SANS-CULOTTES
Well-off urban workers who were extremely radical
Fear National Convention is not radical enough in furthering goals of Revolution Work with The Mountain Favored direct
democracy
France defeats Prussia and Austria in major battles in late 1792
Significance? Declare war on most major powers in
Europe – the First Coalition Threat of war to restore monarchy
always there unless…
WAR VICTORIES WITH MEANING
DEATH OF THE KING
To solidify position as the French republic, the National Convention executed the King in January 1793
Convicted and executed as a traitor to the Republic
THIS IS THE DAY CALLED THURSDAY.
Some More 7.3 Notes Maybe Some Video
Clips Review Game QUIZ TOMORROW
7.1 TO 7.3
Random Fact of the Day Little children who
change their teachers’ random facts of the day often receive coal in their stockings at Christmas.
NATIONAL CONVENTION GOES RADICAL
May 1793 – Mountain + sans-culottes oust moderate Girondists from Convention Robespierre has 31
Girondists leaders arrested
Many Girondists now will work against the Revolution
Charlotte CordetVs.
Jean-Paul Marat
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Established as emergency gov’t in summer of 1793 to deal with internal + external challenges to Revolution Constitution suspended Led by Robespierre and Louis
Saint-Just Rousseau’s “general will”
Established Law of Maximum to direct economy in wartime Contradiction to Enlightenment
ideas on free market Early version of socialism Set price controls, nationalized
workshops, and established rationing
SUCKING AT
MILITARY VICTORY (EXTERNAL ENEMIES)
France’s military grew to 1 million men strong Levee en masse –
national conscription Austrian Netherlands
and Rhineland controlled by France by 1794
France’s government’s legitimacy increases Must work to secure its
place, eliminate enemies
REIGN OF TERROR (INTERNAL ENEMIES)
Summer 1793-Summer 1794 40,000 people throughout France were
killed…seen as threats to Robespierre’s power Former allies of Robespierre also sent to death
WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW TODAY IS FRIDAY.
Finish 7.3 Notes A Video Review Quiz Homework This Weekend
Random Fact of the Day Santa Claus is based on a real
person, St. Nikolas of Myra, who lived during the fourth century. He is the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.
REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Robespierre sought to
create a deist France and eliminate all traces of Old Regime
Cultural Changes Changed the calendar No Sundays Closed all churches in Paris
Cult of the Supreme Being Deistic national religion
founded by Robespierre Notre Dame Cathedral
converted to Temple of Reason
Triggered widespread opposition to Robespierre
THERMADORIAN REACTION
7/27/94 – Robespierre denounced in the Convention and arrested Executed the next day
on the guillotine Reign of Terror ended Respectable 3rd Estate
bourgeoisie reassert their authority in the new government called The Directory