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Deficit Spending
Deficit Spending France was in debt many years before from former kings that ruled, so they left King Louis XVI in a huge debt. He was only young, so he hired Jacques Necker as a financial advisor. He urged him to do some things such as tax everyone, reduce extravagent court spending, reform government, and abolish burdensome tariffs on internal trade. Many wealthy and powerful people demanded that the -
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king summon the Estates-General. When Jacques Necker gave the suggestion of taxing the First and Second Estates as well, the nobles and high clergy ordered the king to get rid of him. -
King Calls Estate-General 1
King Louis XVI calls Estates-General because France is on the verge of bankruptcy. He had all three estates prepare cahiers, or notebooks, stating the things they found unfair. Many of them asking for fairer taxes, freedom of the press, and regular meetings of the Estates-General. In some places, shoemakers wanted to get rid of regulations making leather so expensive that they couldn't make shoes. Servants and maids demanded the right to leave the service she's in when they wanted and after they -
King Calls Estates-General
work for someone long enough they should get some reward for her work. Many people complained about tax collectores and clergy. -
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
It also asserted the freedom of religion and made taxes according to the ability of the citizen to pay. The slogan explains pretty well what is in it; "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." -
Storming of Bastille 1
In Paris the streets were full of spreading rumors that royal troops were going to occupy the capital. Many Parisians, over 800, gathers outsided of the Bastille, a mideval fortress used as a prison. They heard that there was a stock of weapons and gunpowder stored inside this building and the crowd wanted it. The leader of the Bastille refused to open the doors and opened fire on all the Parisians. Many people were killed as a result of this battle. The people were very angry and finally -
Storming of Bastille 2
managed to break through the defenses. Together they the commander of the Bastille, five guards, and released many prisoners, but came to find no weapons. -
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
In late August, as a way of starting the constitution, the National Assembly made a document called The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. This document states that all men were born to be free and equal in all rights before the law. Also, it stated beliefs of natural rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. It states that every Frenchman has the same right to hold public office without distinction besides their virtues and talents. -
Women March of Versailles 2
needed and much of what she wanted. She cared for the poor, but no one noticed the smalls acts she did because of her lifestyle, which overshadowed them. The women said they would not leave until the king returned to Paris. He wasn't very happy about it but he did. For three years after he returned, he remained a prisoner. -
Women March on Versailles 1
Many women got angry because the Declaration of the Rights of Man did not give them equal citizenship. About six thousand women walked 13 miles from Paris to Versailles in the pouring rain. They demanded to see the king as they shouted out, "bread!" Alot of the anger coming from the French citizens was towards their queen, Marie Antoinette, who is Austrian. She led a great life, had much more than she needed and wanted, but did not show any care towards the people of her country. -
Threats From Abroad 2
Pilnitz. These two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy. The Declaration of Pilnitz was mostly full of lies, but France takes threats very seriously and began to prepare for war. -
Threats From Abroad 1
European rulers increased the borded patrols to stop the spread of the "French Plague." Emigres tols many stories of nobles, clergy, and others that fled France, reported attacks on their privealages, property, reliogion, and even some of their own lives. Edmund Burke predicted the outcome of the revolution all too well. When King Louis XVI tried to escape, his fail made everything all the rumors and rustling about worse. The King of Prussia and emperor of Austria created the Declaration of -
Civil War 2
They had many people supporting them with this demand including the Jacobins, or middle class lawyers and intellectuals. They "advertised" their ideas in newspapers and pamphlets so that more people would know about some new demands. The Legislative Assembly were very eager to destroy tyranny and spread the revolution so they declared war agains Britain, Prussia, Austria, and some other states. This fighting began in 1792 and lasted until 1815. -
Civil War 1
In October, 1791, a new Legislative Assembly entered the office, suffering crises only lasty not even a year. During this time, the revolutionary currency, assignatsm dropped in value, which caused prices of different things to rise very quickly. Because of prices rising there were many more food shortages. Many working men and women, called sans-culottes, made the revolution into more serious aciton. These working citizens demanded that the government be changed to a republic government. -
Monarchy is Abolished 1
A crowd of Parisians marches through the royal palace of the Tuileres and they slaughtered the king;s guards. Before the crowd arrived, the king and his family managed to escape to the Legislative Assembly. Not long after, a crowd of citizens attacked prisoners holding nobles and preists accountable for political offenses. They killed around 1,200 prisoners and many of them were ordinary criminals. These crowds were known as the "bloodthorsty mobs." Some people that them to be just patriots -
Monarchy is Abolished 2
defending France. The Radicals started to take control of the Legislative Assembly, calling for and election to get a better legislative body called the National Convention, being much more radical. Soon after the meeting met, they developed a new constitution. They put Louis XVI on trial for being a traitor, he was found guilty and punished with a death sentence. He tried to say a few words but was drowned out by the sound of a drum. The executioner held his head up by his hair for the crowd. -
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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror 2
Maximiien Robespierre, lawyer and politician, quickly started to gain leadership of the Committee of Public Safety during this time. He earned the nickname "the uncorruptible" because of his selfles dedicataion to the revolution, but for his enemies, they believed that he was a tyrant. He wanted to get rid of slavery and he encouraged the idea or religious tolerance. He was very popular among the sans-culottas because they disliked the old regime just as he did, even though he was humorless. -
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Robespierre and the Reign of Terror 3
He liked to believe that the French could only gain a republic government through terror, which he thought to be "prompt, severe, inflexible justice." He also once said that "liberty cannot be secured unless criminals lose their heads. Robespierre was one of the "chief architects" of the Reign of Terror. He thought that terror was needed to reach the goals of the revolution. During this period, about 300 thousand were arrested and 17 thousand were executed, many of them were mistaken identities -
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or false accusations. The main execution weapon was a device called the guillotine, which blade falls very quickly, causing instant death. On July 27 Robespierre was arrested, being executed the next day, because he was abusing his power. After his death, the number of executions decreased slowly. -
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