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In this year, two crisis happened:
Economic crisis; bad harvests, rise in prices (mostly on food), discontent, angry and unemployed people -
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The national constituent assembly made some legal reforms:
-Feudal rights were abolished
-declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen { rights, freedom and equality} -
New constitution: end of privileges, guilds…
The members sat according to their ideology
- moderates on the center
- radical revolutionaries on the left
- royalist on the right
The king had the right of veto (the right to cancel or deny a law in the legislative body) -
France declared preventive war on Austria that invaded France.
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The common people (sans-culottes) attacked the Tuileries Palace and took the royal family. And the republic was declared.
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The best known moderates were the Girondins. They were embarrased by the king’s attempted flight, but they wanted to pressure the constitutional monarchy.
They were the voice against the violence in the assembly.
Girondin’s intention was to abolish the monarchy and create a Freanch Republic. They will accuse the king on trial for treason, try to spand universal suffrage and control the prices. -
He was accused of treason
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She was accused of treason
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During the Jacobin convention
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The Jacovins were the most radical bourgueoisi sector:
They represented the demands of the people. This period was the most extremist.
It was written a new constitution that recognized universal male suffrage and social equality.
The executive power was applied by the committee of public safety, led by Maxmiliane Robespierre -
New constitution, new government and a moderate bourgueoisie.
Elected legislature and executive branch with five directors, to avoid dictatorship.
One of those leaders was Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleon Bonaparte become first consul. -
He declared himself Emperor of France with general aproval -
New constitution, new revolutionary measures, a Napoleon Code…
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Because of the abolishment of absolute monarchies and feudal rights.
And because an strong anty-French feeling.