French revolution II.

National Assembly (1789-1791)

• Louis XVI did not actually want a written constitution

• When news of his plan to use military force against the National Assembly reached Paris on July 14, 1789, people stormed the Bastille

Uprising in Paris

• Rebellion spreads

• Peasants destroy the countryside

• End of feudal privileges

The Great Fear

• Adopted by National Assembly on August 26th 1789.

• Enlightenment ideals

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Lower classes still were unsatisfied

• Thousands of starving women and peasants marched on Versailles

• Louis forced to return to Paris

The March of Women 5th Oct. 1789

H. The Court Returns to Paris

• Mounting unemployment and hunger in Paris in the fall of 1789

• “October Days”

-- “The point is that we want bread!”

• Women nearly killed the Queen

• The Royal Family returns to Paris on October 6, 1789

Tuileries Palace (Paris, France)

Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)

• Royal family sought help from Austria– In June, 1791, they were caught trying to escape to

Austria

• Nobles who fled the revolution lived abroad as émigrés– They hoped that, with foreign help, the Old Regime

could be restored in France

• Church officials wanted Church lands, rights, and privileges restored

• Political parties, representing different interests, emerged– Girondists– Jacobins

New Constitution

• Constitutional monarchy

• New Legislative Assembly

• Sans-culottes

Painting depicting the 1791 constitution

Changes under the National Assembly

• Émigrés• Louis XVI and his

family attempted to flee France

• They were arrested at Varennes

Flight of the King

The capture of Louis XVI at Varennes