Death of the King and Queen Ch. 11 Section 1-2

Review The Deficit Abuses of the King and Queen The Estates General Tennis Court Oath The Storming of the Bastille

Chaos in France The Great Fear – vast panic that spread through France Starving and scared peasants b/g to attack homes of nobles and steal grain from storehouses National Assembly votes to destroy feudalism and aristocratic privileges They adopt the Declaration of the Rights of Man

Liberty, Fraternity, Equality Declaration of the Rights of Man Modeled after the American Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution Meets key goals of the Enlightenment All men are equal in the eyes of the law King Louis XVI refuses to accept the declaration

Women’s March to Versailles Thousands of Parisian women march to Versailles armed with pitchforks, swords, pistols, etc. The women… Demanded bread for their starving children Forced him to sign the Declaration of the Rights of Man Broke into Versailles and tried to find the queen to kill her They did not find her in their rage They forced the royal family to go back to Paris

Death to the King and Queen The royal family runs for the border into Austria They will be recognized and caught This is seen by the French people as running from their duty, abandoning their people, and treason All that support the king’s return to power are killed by the guillotine 1793 – King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are found guilty of treason and beheaded by the guillotine Revolutionaries b/l the monarch had to die for the revolution to live