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Compte Rendu au Roi was the first public accoubnt of the state of the kingdom's finances in 1781.
Jacques Necker was appointed Director-General of the Royal Finances in 1776. -
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Calonne presented his reform agenda, and suggested calling of Assembly of Notables to endorse the reforms before sending them to the Parliament for Paris for registration. The King agreed.
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The assembly was stunned to hear of the state of France's finances when Necker has shown them to be so healthy only five years before.
Distrust of Calonne.
The Notables were asked to support Calonne's reforms. -
The King was too weak to support Calonne against the Notables. Calonne dismissed.
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The Notables still refused to support the tax reforms.
They argued that legally the only body which could train new taxes was an Etates-General. -
Brienne reworked Calonne's reforms.
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Was exiled for refusing to register Brienne's reform package.
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Brienne announced Estates-General for 1792.
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The King attempted to assert his royal prerogative as if this were a lit de justice.
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The Paris Parlement appeared as defender of the rights of the nation in promulgating laws which it claimed were 'ancient practice and outside the jurisdiction of the King'.
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Parlements deprived of rights to register new laws - in exile again.
Aristocratic Revolt: riots in provincial capitals, nobles met in unauthorised assemblies. -
The people of Grenoble turned out to prevent the exile by force of their parlementaries.
Assembly of Clergy supported nobles, voted very small don gratuit for 1788.
Pamphlet war began: more radical - referred to ideas like natural law, inalienbale rights, general will and sovereignty of the people. -
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Meeting of Estates-General brought forward to 1 May 1789.
Brienne resigned. -
Parlement recalled, Plenary Court disbanded.
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Overnight the Parlement lost the support of bourgeoisie who feared this meant voting by estate not by head.
Controversy erupted over method of voting in Estates-General; Assembly of Notables recalled briefly but did not resolve issues. -
A revolutionary group, later called the Constituional Club.
Consisted of thirty, but later increased to sixty liberal nobles (only five commoners). Members included Marquis de Lafayette, Duc de Noailles and Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Many had brought home ideas from America. -
The Third Estate now had 600 deputies, while the nobility and clergy each had 300.
Elections of deputies began; although indirect for Third Estate. these were the most democratic elections of the whole revolution. -
Thousands of copies sold.
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House and factory of prosperous businessmen set on fire, rumoured that he intended to reduce wages.
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Deputies were unsure whether they would be voting by estate or by head.
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Death after 2 years fighting tuberculosis. The King and Queen suffered deep grief throughout this period.
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Several parish priests soon joined them.
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This group of commoners and a few lower clergy took a momenous and revolutionary step.
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'[We] take a solemn oath not to seperate ... until the constitution of the Kingdom is established.'
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This was headed by two archbishops and a few nobles.
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The King ordered the Estates to meet seperately.
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'We, too, are citizens.'
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Included royal prince Duc d'Orleans. Lafayette was not among them.
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This reflected its avowed purpose, which was to write a constitution for France.
Royal troops were around 18 000. The crowd in Paris feared the King meant to close the Assembly by force. -
The King blamed Necker for the failure of the Estates-General.
Royal troops around 30 000, which looked like a declaration of war to the crowd in Paris. -
Parisian attacked hated customs barriers around Paris.
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Electors of Paris decided to form a new municipal government at the Town Hall in an attempt to restore order in the city.
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The first revolutionary journee.
The crowd saw itself as having saved the Revolution.
It was understood that is had power if it organised itself to act togther. -
Was answerable to the new Paris Commune.
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20 000 emigres were to follow him in the next two months.
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The cockade worn by Louis signifies his acceptance of the Revolution.
This was the symbolic birth of constitution monarchy in France, -
A seperate phenomenon which became entwined with the Rural Revolt.
A set of rumours which swept through pockets of France, claiming that armed bands of 'brigands' who were in the pay of aristocracy would destroy te harvest,
There was no substance of these rumours.
The Great Fear was the last major crisis of the old regime.
Had a direct influence upon the reforms of August 4th. -
The seizure of power from royal authorities throughout the town of France.
The establishment of communes and national guards in regional cities, modelled on those of Paris. -
Had already begun in Spring.
Intensified after the news of the Fall of the Bastille reached the countryside.
Chateaux and tithe barns were attacked, fires were sometimes set in order to destroy terriers, or manorial rolls of feudal records. -
Decrees that watered down the absolute renunications made on the Night of August 4th.
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This document would be called the 'blueprint' of the Revolution.
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The second revolutionary journee.
King and royal family brought back to Paris.
The King was forced to pass the August decress and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
The National Assembly followed the King to Paris.