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Cause of French Revolution
The French people were hearing from the philosophers ideas about the king should have limited power, that people should have rights and freedom, the king is breaking the social contract, and the philosophers are pushing the French people to revolt. class notes -
national assembly created
Estates-General had been called on May 5, 1789 to deal with France's financial crisis, but promptly fell to squabbling over its own structure. Its members had been elected to represent the estates of the realm: the First Estate, the Second Estate and the Third Estate. The Third Estate had been granted "double representation"—that is, twice as many delegates as each of the other states. -
tennis court oath
The Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch, a politician who would not execute decisions not sanctioned by the king.
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the assembly covenes
This newly created assembly immediately attached itself to the capitalists — the sources of the credit needed to fund the national debt — and to the common people. They consolidated the public debt and declared all existing taxes to have been illegally imposed, but voted in these same taxes provisionally, only as long as the Assembly continued to sit. This restored the confidence of the capitalists and gave them a strong interest in keeping the Assembly in session. wikipedia -
the king resists
Jacques Necker, finance minister to Louis XVI(the king of France at the time of revolution), had earlier proposed that the king hold a Séance Royale (Royal Session) in an attempt to reconcile the divided Estates. The king agreed; but none of the three orders were formally notified of the decision to hold a Royal Session. All debates were to be put on hold until the séance royale took place. -
reconstitution
Messages of support poured into the Assembly from Paris and other French cities. On July 9, 1789, the Assembly, reconstituting itself as the National Constituent Assembly, addressed the king in polite but firm terms. -
attack on the bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. wikipedia -
D.R.M
Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789. The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body. -
Confrontation and recognition
on June 23, in accord with his plan, the king finally addressed the representatives of all three estates, he encountered a stony silence. He concluded by ordering all to disperse. The nobles and clergy obeyed; the deputies of the common people remained seated in a silence finally broken by Mirabeau, who made short speech. -
the bread march
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. wikipedia -
royal escape
they had been forced to move to Paris by an angry mob that broke into the Palace of Versailles. Even though the Royal Family were under constant guard the guards were responsible to the National Assembly, not to the king. Increasingly, the events of the revolution had made the King feel like a prisoner. Secondly, the King hoped to escape from Paris, the centre of the Revolution, to make contact with the people in the provinces who were more royalist. -
reign of terror
the bastille was made to kill everyone who came in the way of the decleration of rights of man. king louis 16 and many more were killed for not agreeing with the DRM. -
death of king louis 16
He was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 as a desacralized French citizen known as "Citizen Louis Capet", a nickname in reference to Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty – which the revolutionaries interpreted as Louis' family name. In the meantime, the French Republic had been proclaimed 21 September 1792. wikepedia -
result of french revolution
- Feudalism was abolished (August 4, 1789).
- Nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies, and cities lost their special privileges.
- The Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789) which stated that the individual and collective rights of the nobility, clergy, and commoners were equal.
- The National Assembly was legitimized (October 6, 1789).
- Feudalism was abolished (August 4, 1789).
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after the french revolution
French people called themselves "citoyens" citizen in a way people called each other "comrades" in Russia, a new system to divide administrative France the departements was created, a true democratic Government was established, monarchy was abolished, the all powerful Church saw its privileges abolished, a new system of law was to be introduced, a new calender to replace the old one was introduced. wikipedia -
start of the french revolution
The French Revolution began because France's government was still a fuedalism. This means that their were three ranks, and the peasents and working/middle class were extremely misstreated. The Aristocracy, or high class, felt that the third class were nothing but insects, and therefore treated them as so. wikipedia