Vivé La Révolution!!!

By weaverQPN

  • Reasons The French People Sought to Rebel!

    1. Social Stratification
    2. Enlightenment & The American Revolution
    3. Economic Failure
    4. Weak Government

  • Reason One: Social Stratification

    Society was broken down into 3 parts or Estates
    1, Clergy (Catholic Church)
    2. Nobility (Born into it your family is rich and wealthy)
    3. Everyone else (Physicians- Peasants)
    Since the first two estates always "Buddied" they always out voted the 3rd Estate this caused social unrest.

  • Reason two: Enlightenment & The American Revolution

    Enlightenment ideas spread to france sparking a want for change and equality. Also, since the French found out how the American Revolution ended it really fired them up to start a Revolution.

  • Reason Three: Ecomomic Failure

    Since France had fought many costly wars outrageous taxes were placed on its citizens mainly the members of the 3rd estate. This caused bread prices to Skyrocket causing many robberies so that people could put food in their mouths, this made the ecomomy take an even steeper nose dive.

  • Reason Four: Weak Government

    Since the Clergy and the Nobility held the majority together they didnt seem to care what happened to the other estate the spent money like gambling fools running up more debts. They put pleasure over business.

  • Louis XVI calls the Estates-General

    He did this because he was forced to.
    France was bankrupt and the Royal family had been severely threatened. This was an emergency situation and the Estates general was representatives of all social classes or estates who were asked for their view and vote on the current state of France. Meaning Louis XVI was forced to put that power that originally belonged to him as King, to them.

  • The Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath was a major 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. They made an oath saying they would keep meeting untill they got a new Constitution. They made a makeshift meeting room inside a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles. This group, began to call themselves the National Assembly.

  • The Stroming of the Bastille

    The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the turning point of the French Revolution.

  • The Declaration of the rights of men

    The concepts in the Declaration come from political principles of the Enlightenment, such as the social contract invented by Rousseau, and the separation of powers by Montesquieu. The declaration of rights of man is majorlyinfluenced by Enlightenment ideas of human rights, some of which is shared with the U.S. Declaration of Independance.

  • The Monarchy is Abolished

    The proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on 21 September 1792

  • Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror also known simply as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the beginging of the French Revolution, fueled by conflict between rival political groups, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine.

  • Napoleon's Rise to power

    He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle between royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. He supported the revolutionary Jacobin group, gained the rank of lieutenant colonel and command over a battalion of volunteers. After he had exceeded his leave of absence and led a riot against a French army in Corsica, he was somehow able to convince military authorities in Paris to promote him to captain.

  • The Spread of Nationalism

    The French Revolution paved the way for the modern nation-state. Across Europe radicals questioned the old monarchial order and encouraged the development of a popular nationalism committed to re-drawing the political map of the continent.