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Oct 7, 1500
Enlightenment Ideas
When the enlightenment started in France in started putting thoughts of discontent into the hearts and minds of the people. The enlightenment made people think that things might be better without an absolute monarchy and more rights for the people. notes/brain -
Period: Oct 7, 1500 to
France Enlightenment
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France in Revolution
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The Seven Years War
France had been expanding in North America and because of this the French often had skirmishes with English soldiers. Although battles and wars had been a conflict between France and England for years this war in North America lasted for seven years and left France banckrupt and defeated.
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Marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antonette
The two royals were still very young when they got married, fourteen and fifteen years old. They got married as a political treaty to unite two kingdoms and have peace.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France -
The Royal Family
After five years of being childless Louis and Marie had four childeren. Marie also had two miscarriages one after the birth of her first child, Marie- Therese-Charlotte. Her second child Louis -Joseph-Xavier-Francois died in 1789 at age seven, leaving his brother Louis Charles as the future king of France. The youngest child Sophie- Helene- Beatrix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France -
Rise of the National Assembly
Because France was banckrupt and had terrible leadership the king's financial adviser urged him to call a meeting of the three classes to discuss what to do. This did not end well because the first two estates out numbered the third estate considerably. Angry the third estate representatives stormed. http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/hfr3.htm out of the meeting, and decided to form their own meeting called the National Assembly who would represent the people fairly. -
The Tennis Court Oath
A few days later when the third assembly returned to the meeting room they found that the king had locked them out. The new National Assembly was forced to meet in some other place. The place they chose was a neaby tennis court. There the National Assembly swore to make a document that would protect the rights of the people and to keep meeting until this document was complete. Notes -
Storming of the Bastille the Revolution Begins
The people of Paris heard a rumor that the king was planing an attack on Paris to get rid of this new assembly. The people were not going to let themselves be slaughtered so they raided shopes and stole muskets and other weapons, but discovered that they did not have powder enough to arm their weapons but they knew where to get some. The Bastille was a fortress prison where gun powder and amunition was kept. The people stormed the fortess, killing and doing what they wanted and tore itapart.note -
The Bread March
Women marched from Paris to Versailles to demand that King Lous XVI give them bread and lower the price. Bread was the main staple of life and the price was far to high. A person's salary was hardly enough to buy their daily bread. http://www.historywiz.com/womensmarch.htm -
Mademoiselle Guillotine
The guillotine was a clever beheading invention. Dr. Joseph Guillotin was the inventor. Many people went to the guillotine, common crimanals and the highest in the land. It was a way that the people made everyone equal,in death.http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/Guillotine.htm -
The Great Escape
Up until this time, the revolutionaries had made a constitutional monarchy and the constitution was nearly compete. By a contitutional monarchy the king was forced to sign more and more of his power to the revolutionaries. The king had had enough and decided to escape to Belium by way of the royal coach. Dressed as servants the family got within miles of the border before they were stopped by a town official. They were then arrested and taken to Paris.http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/fl -
Louis Head Falls
His Majesty King Louis XVI of France was kiled by his own people. The people of France led a revolution against him and when they decided to publicly make him die a humiliating death it was because they did not trust him, or love hm. He had led his nation astray into banckrupcy and choas, and now his people hated him. Video we watched -
Death of a Queen
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The New Religion
On May seventh the Robespierre presented his idea to the National Convention for a new religion, a religion of state that would be called The Supreme Being.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being -
Reign of Terror
The reign of terror was a time when the war between France and the world was not going well and they had lots of nobile prisonersthat hey could'nt decide what to do with. The people decided that to show the world not the mess with them they would have a series of exicutions and kill all the people who they thought a threat to their republic. notes -
Robespierre's Downfall
Robespierre was a great and influential figure in the Revolution and especially in the Terreor. Although and because o this he wanted to mske himself the ruler of the revolution and have more bloodshed. He also tried to dispose of his fellow revolutionaries, but they would not stand for that and had him arrested and exicuted.http://www.historytoday.com/marisa-linton/robespierre-and-terror -
Results of the French Revolution
A few results, good and bad of the French Revolution are that the people of France had their way. France was now a place of greater freedoms. Enlightenment ideas and literature had been spred through the world. a bad thing about the revolution is that so many inocent people were slaughtered and never remembered. The Scarlet Pimpernel Series.
