FRENCH REVOLUTION

CONCEPT
1. PERIOD OF VIOLENT
  1. POLITICAL
    1. CHANGES
  2. SOCIAL
    1. CHANGES
      1. ABOLITION OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY
      2. END OF STATES SYSTEM
2. INFLUENCE OF ENLIGHTENED IDEAS
3. CRISIS
  1. POLITICAL
    1. FIRST STATE
      1. 270.000 PEOPLE
      2. 300 REPRESENTATIVES (1 VOTE)
    2. SECOND STATE
      1. 130.000 PEOPLE
      2. 300 REPRESENTATIVES (1 VOTE)
    3. THIRD STATE
      1. 27MILLION PEOPLE
      2. 600 REPRESENTATIVES (1 VOTE)
    4. ABSOLUTE KING
  2. SOCIAL
    1. NOBILITY
      1. TAXES REFUSED
    2. MIDDLE CLASSES
      1. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
    3. PEASANTRY
      1. SUFFERING TAXES AND REFORMS
  3. ECONOMIC
    1. BANKRUPT
      1. MILITARY CONFLICTS
      2. LUXURIOUS WAY OF LIFE OF ROYAL FAMILY
      3. SOLUTION
        RAISE TAXES
STAGES
1. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY + ETATES GENERALES
  1. BEFORE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
    1. FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
    2. FEUDAL RIGHTS
    3. SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
      1. MAIN PROBLEM
        VOTING SYSTEM
        CRITICISM OVER THIS VOTING SYSTEM
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        3º STATE DECLARED THEMSELVES AS THE NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
        CAHIERES DE DOLÉANCES
        Annotations:
        GRIEVANCES WRITTEN BY THE 3º STATE
  2. ETATES GENERALES
    1. SUMMONED BY LUIS XVII IN 1788
2. THE DIRECTORY AND THE CONSULATE
  1. DIRECTORY
    1. MODERATE MIDDLECLASS GAINED CONTROL OF FRANCE
      1. ATTEMPT OF RADICALS
        NAPOLEON STOPPED THEM
    2. 1795-1799
      1. MORE CONSERVATIVE
        5 MEMBERS
        CONSTITUTION OF YEAR III (1795)
        RADICALS WANTED TO GAIN CONTROL
        NAPOLEON STARTED A COUP D'ETAT
        NAPOLEON INSTALLED A CONSULATE
  2. CONSULATE
    1. 3 CONSULS
      1. 1802
        NAPOLEON DECLARED HIMSELF AS 1º CONSUL FOR LIFE
        1804
        EMPEROR OF FRANCE (PLEBISCITE)
        HE GRADUALLY INCREASED HIS POWER
3. THE CONVENTION (1792-1795)
  1. GIRONDINS CONVENTION
    1. REPUBLICAN CALENDAR
    2. COUNTER REVOLUTION (VENDEE)
    3. LOUIS WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE OF TRASON
    4. NEW EUROPEAN WAR TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE REVOLUTION
      1. 30.000 NEW MEN JOINED THE FRENCH ARMY
  2. JACOBINS CONVENTION
    1. 12 MEMBERS LED BY ROBESPIERRE
    2. TERROR
      1. 40-50000 EXECUTIONS
    3. DEALING WITH
      1. COUNTER REVOLUTION
      2. WAR AGAINST RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA
    4. NEW LAWS
      1. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
      2. PRICES CONTROLLED
    5. JULY (1794)
      1. ROBESPIERRE WAS REMOVED FROM POWER
4. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
  1. FLIGHT TO VARENNES
    1. 20-21 JUNE 1791
      1. KING LUIS XVII TRIED TO ESCAPE TO VARENNES
        HE WAS CAUGHT
        PICTUIRE OF THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES
  2. RIOTS
    1. PARIS
      1. PRISION OF BASTILLE
        14 JULY 1789
    2. COUNTRYSIDE
      1. GRAND PEUR
  3. REFORMS
    1. 2º CONSTITUTION (1791)
      1. POPULAR SOVEREIGNITY
      2. SEPARATION OF POWERS
      3. TENNIS COURT OATH
      4. LIMITED MALE SUFFRAGE
    2. ABOLITION OF FEUDAL RIGHTS + D.R.M.C.
      1. CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY
        JURORS
        NON-JURORS
5. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
  1. GIRONDINS
    1. BURGEOISIE
    2. LIMITED MALE SUFFRAGE
    3. MORE LIBERAL STATE
    4. BRISSOT
  2. JACOBINS
    1. WORKERS / LABOURERS
    2. REPUBLIC
    3. MORE INTERVENTIONIST STATE
    4. ROBESPIERRE
  3. INTERNAL PROBLEMS
    1. NOBILITY WAS DISCONTENT
      1. JOINED FOREIGN ARMIES
    2. NON-JURORS ALSO FOUGHT
  4. EXTERNAL PROBLEMS
    1. AUSTRIA / PRUSIA
      1. DECLARED A WAR IN FRANCE
    2. VALMY (SEPTEMBER 1792)
      1. GREAT VICTORY
    3. 1792 DEFEATS
      1. ATACK TO THE TULIERS PALACE

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