So You Say You Want a Revolution?

Part Two: The Moderate Takeover

The French Revolution

Mr. BachAccelerated World History

Hudson High SchoolHudson, Ohio

Great Fear

• Peasants and poor seize control of the countryside by terrorizing the nobility and the clergy

Reforms of the National Assembly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen– Statement of Principles

• “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”

– Hello Citizen!

The Parisian Bread RiotOctober 5-6, 1789

• The Baker, The Baker’s Wife, and the Baker’s Lad

How To Finance the New Government?

• Confiscate the Lands of the First Estate

• Highly controversial decision of the National Assembly

Civil Constitution of the Clergy1790

• Government paid the salaries of the French Government paid the salaries of the French clergy and maintained the churches.clergy and maintained the churches.

• Priests and Bishops elected by assemblies, Priests and Bishops elected by assemblies, not the Pope.not the Pope.

• It transformed France’sIt transformed France’sRoman Catholic ChurchRoman Catholic Churchinto a branch of the state!!into a branch of the state!!

The Flight to VarennesJune 1791

• Royal Family tries to escape to the safety of the Austrian Netherlands and are discovered.

• Emigres – nobles and army officers who fled France

A Bourgeois Government

• Constitutional Monarchy– Louis XVI (in a very weak position)– Legislative Assembly

• Elected by people who paid taxes (excluded 1/3 of male population)

• Split into three factions– Conservatives

– Moderates

– Radicals

Confirmation of Sedition

• King Louis XVI to the King of Prussia:– “I have just addressed myself to the emperor,

the empress of Russia, and to the kings of Spain and Sweden; I am suggesting to them the idea of a congress of the chief powers of Europe, supported by an armed force, as the best means of checking seditious parties, of establishing a more desirable order of things, and of preventing the evil which afflicts us from reaching the other states of Europe.”

• Your good brother, Louis.

The First Coalition &The First Coalition &TheThe Brunswick ManifestoBrunswick Manifesto

(August 3, 1792)(August 3, 1792)

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Duke of BrunswickDuke of Brunswick if the Royal Family is if the Royal Family is harmed,harmed, Paris will be leveled!! Paris will be leveled!!

This military crisis undermined the new This military crisis undermined the new Legislative Assembly.Legislative Assembly.

France at War

• Army– Disadvantage: Lack of

officers and discipline

– Advantage: Cause and Spirit

• Fear from Inside and Outside

• Sans-Culottes – Parisian mob

• Jacobins growing in power

The Weapon of the Revolution