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Deficit spending by the government and Economic Reform
-the national dept soars, louis XIV had left france in dept.
- the heirs to louis left the people and government in even more dept.
-Economic Reform Fails, louis hired a man named Jocques Necker to help them with the governments financial disorder.
-Necker adviced ( no more tarrifs, unfair taxes).
- Louis did not listen to jacques and fired him. putting them in more dept forcing to call the estate general for the government. -
Louis XVI calls the estates-general.
He is forced to call the estates general, and they make up an idea called a greivance notebook.
- Delagates ake the tennis coart oath, meaning that tons of delagates snuck a meeting in a big tennis coart and all promised eachother they will not stop fighting the government until every problem in the government was resolved. -
Parisians storm the bastille
the city of paris seized the attention from the national assembly meeting in Versailles. People believing that the weapons and gun powder they wanted was in this fortress, so finally the mob just took over the bastille with thousands of people and killed the commander and many other guards to get what they wanted. -
national Assembly Acts, (Rights of man, Womens March, Church, Constitution).
-Rights of Man, was a decleration stating what men could do as u public
-Womens March, 6000 women marched to the queen and demanded her to fix things for the colonists and demand she start carring or they will kill her
-Threats from abroud, 1791 the king tried to run away but was caught, bringing even worse disraspect for him and more problems.
-Church under state control, made so bishops and priests had to be equal with everyone else. -
Radicals declare war
-Rulers feared the revolution, the boarder patrollers had more and more work because knobles and people of clergy that hasd fled france for the revolutionary forces came back to tell stories of plague and attack.
-THREATS COME FROM ABROAD- august 1791 the king of prussia and the emporer of austria issued a decleration, which the french took seriously and prepared for war.
-many sans-culottes demanded a republic instead of a monarch for the people and government. -
monarchy is abolished
-in Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic.
- this came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power.
-In January 1793, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. then his wife also was condemmed to death, and everything changed and the monarchy at this point was abolished until further notice. -
robespierre and the reign of terror
-The Reign of Terror (27 June 1793 – 27 July 1794), also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of violence that occurred for one year and one month after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions.
-The Terror was designed to fight the enemies of the revolution, to prevent counter-revolution from gaining ground.
-Robespierre was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror. He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety, ect. -
the third stage of the revolution
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spread of nationalism
-By the time Napoleon was firmly in power France had lost much of its revolutionary enthusiasm and his armies were really engaged in a war of conquest. Nationalism spread, though this may have been a feature of the 'spirit of the age'. Many countries adopted French law.
