The French Revolution and Its Impact Readings: Spodek, pp

France is a Mess!!  France was involved in the American Revolution from  Government was unwieldy.  Weather was a big problem especially in 1788.

King Louis XVI  He agrees to recall the Estates General  Spring of 1789 there was the Cahiers de Doleances.  May 5, 1789 The Estates meet in Versailles.  From May 5-June 17, 1789: The Third Estate boycotts the Estates General

The Revolution of 1789  The Bastille is stormed on July 14,  “Freeing the Enslaved”

Timeline of the French Revolution (continued)  Peasants Revolt  Weathervanes  Night of August 4  Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 27,1789)  March on Versailles  Constitution  Abolished Ecclesiastical Orders  Growing Power of Clubs

Timeline Continued  Flight of King  The Legislative Assembly  War of the First Coalition  Violence in Paris  The National Convention  Monarchy Abolished  Committee of Public Safety becomes all powerful  Rules by General Will  Robespierre is in the center.  They abolish slavery

Robespierre

Timeline continued  Constitution of Year III  The Terror  Fall of Robespierre  The Directory  Napoleon

Napoleon and Louis XVIII  Napoleon makes himself emperor  Napoleonic Law Code  Louis XVIII reigns as a constitutional monarch

St. Helena Island

Who Won and Who lost?  Rich Males in the short run  All males in the long run  Maybe peasants or at least some peasants in some places  Women  Agrarian Worker  Slaves after Napoleon restores slavery  The nobility who left France  The Church