The Groups

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The Groups

A. Peasants B. Nobles

C. Sans-culottes D. Bourgeoisie

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G. Charles de Calonne, the next finance minister, attempted to side-step the hostile

Parlements (law courts).

H. Calonne proposed to end the

taille and impose a tax on all landowners & the confiscation of some church property.

I. The Assembly of Notables

refused-Calonne was fired and replaced by Brienne.

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J. Lomenie Brienne tried to push the same tax proposal through the Parlement of Paris, but they said Estates-General had to be called

K. Reluctantly Louis XVI agreed on July 5th, 1788 to call the

Estates-General for the following May.

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The Estates-General

meeting May 5

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A. Estates-General and

representation

B. Cahiers de doléances

C. Parlement of Paris vs.

Society of Thirty

D. “National Assembly”

E. Tennis Court Oath

VI. Moderate Phase of the

French Revolution

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F. Attack on the Bastille and formation of National

Guard

G. Peasant rebellions, July 19-August 3, and Great Fear until August 6th.

H. National Assembly

abolishes feudalism, Aug. 4

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I. Declaration of the

Rights of Man and

Citizen,

August

26,1789

– Equality, popular

sovereignty, general will through representation, freedoms

J. The Women’s March

to Versailles

-October

5, 1789

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VI. Transition from Moderate to Radical

• National Assembly-later

Constituent Assembly ruled the country from Oct. 1789 to Sept. 1791-destroyed the

Ancien Regime and wrote a new constitution

• Divided France up into 83 Departments

• Civil Constitution of the Clergy 1790 established a French

National Church.

• Church property was

confiscated and assignats were issued as currency.

Assignats issued as currency

by the revolutionary

government

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Constitution of 1791

• Assembly had the sovereign power and the monarchy was weak, since no one trusted the King.

• Pre-Revolutionary debts not eliminated, guilds were abolished, trade unions resisted and remained.

• Financial crisis continued.

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Right-a depiction of the

return of the royal

couple to Paris

Bottom-a British

cartoon that depicts the

capture of the Royal

couple at Varennes

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• Pillnitz Declaration

-Austrian Emperor Leopold and King of Prussia

promised to invade and

overthrow the revolution if others would help.

• The later Brunswick

Manifesto vowed revenge if Louis and Marie were harmed.

• The Revolutionary

government called for exporting the revolution and declared war on

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Moderate Phase of the French Revolution

• Summer of 1792

Marseillaise was composed as France went to war

against tyranny

• Legislative Assembly served the propertied classes-the poor saw

inflation and scarcity as peasants horded food. • Émigrés left the nation

with gold-assignats were the only currency

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Radical Phase of the French Revolution

• August 1792 Tuileries

stormed-royal family moved to Temple

• National Convention met Sept. 1792-1795

• September Massacres-over 1,000 refractory priests were dragged out of prison &

murdered

• French Army defeated

Prussians & occupied Belgium, Rhineland cities

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Radical Phase of the French Revolution

• _Jacobin_{leadership in the}

Convention split between the Girondin led by Brissot and the more radical

Mountain led by George-Jacques Danton

• Sept. 21, 1792 abolition of the monarchy & declaration of the republic

• December Louis is placed on trial for treason