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France was ruling by an Old Regime with Louis XVI but the society was very unhappy with he and the country was in bankruptcy. These motives forced the king organize the Geberal States, in witch went the 3 staments.
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The clergy and the nobility wanted to vote per statement but the third statement wanted one vote per each person. The king and privileged people expelled them from the room so they went to the room of the ball game, creating the National Assembly. The wanted to stay there till make a constitution, this is why then was called the Constituent Assembly.
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The increase of the bread and the rumours that say the king was assembling troops in Paris provoke the protests of parisian people and the attack of the Batilla, an old prison and an absolutist symbol.
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To finish with the old regime on August passed the abolition decree of the feudal rights. With it the tithe was supressed and the jurisdictional rights of feudal sirs too.
The statement of men and citizen rights promised free, equality and property. -
It granted the clergy freedom to leave France for Italy and compelled the clergy to participate in charitable acts. It gave citizens the right to elect priests and bishops.
Its objetive was reorganize the Church of France transforming the Catholic parish priests into "ecclesiastical public officials." -
On September of 1791 the first constitution was pass, this was a text in wich:
Politic regime was a parlamentary monarchy: Nacional Sovereignty and basic rights of citizen was recognized.
Exist divison of power.
Assembly would be choose by census vote:people who voted must be over 25 and have certain income.
That was a victory for the bourgeouisie, but the peasants weren't happy because they wanted bigger changes.
Privileged people weren't happy neither. -
The countries near France were frightened about the possibility of a expanse of the Revolution in their countries, so Auntria and Prussia decided start a war between France and them.
They threatened parisian people when were near Paris. -
The popular answer to the threaten was the asault of Tulleries Palace, where the king and the queen was living. This was the end of the monarchy and the begining of the Republic.
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The girondines were hight bourgeoisie and their leader was Brissot. They accepted the monarchy as type of goverment.
During thid period Louis XVI was tried and executed. His die provoked a big shok in Europe and started international coalition against France. The war provoked the radicalization of the Revolution , so they had to create a Public Salvation Committe. -
Jacobines were the middle bourgeoisie and their leader was Robespierre. They were the most radicals.
In June they took the control of the Convention supported by the sans cuottes, the poorest group of people. The goverment was managed by Robespierre, who created a dictatorship and executed many opponets. This period was the Terror period. -
It was created by Jacobines people and it established a popular sovereignty and the univeral male suffrage.
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Robespierre was losing his supports. When he tried to do a new serie of arrest moderate people did a coup d' stat on Thermidor 9( July 28th of our calendar).After it Robespierre was executed.
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After the die of Robespierre the girondines had the control of the convention again. They take off all the Jacobines things and created a new costitution in wich was restored the census suffrage and was recognise nacional sovereignty and separation of powers.
The ejecutive power was directed by 5 people who form the Directory. -
France had an economic and social crisis, and they were still in war with many absolutist countries, so the fame of the army made possible a military coup d' stat to stabilize the country.
Who did the coup d' stat was a young general called Napoleón Bonaparte, who destroyed the Directory and created a Consulship.
