So You Say You Want a Revolution? Part Two: The Moderate Takeover The French Revolution Mr. Bach Accelerated World History Hudson High School Hudson, Ohio

Great Fear Peasants and poor seize control of the countryside by terrorizing the nobility and the clergy

Reforms of the National Assembly Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen –Statement of Principles “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” –Hello Citizen!

The Parisian Bread Riot October 5-6, 1789 The Baker, The Baker’s Wife, and the Baker’s Lad

How To Finance the New Government? Confiscate the Lands of the First Estate Highly controversial decision of the National Assembly

Civil Constitution of the Clergy 1790 Government paid the salaries of the French clergy and maintained the churches.Government paid the salaries of the French clergy and maintained the churches. Priests and Bishops elected by assemblies, not the Pope.Priests and Bishops elected by assemblies, not the Pope. It transformed France’s Roman Catholic Church into a branch of the state!!It transformed France’s Roman Catholic Church into a branch of the state!!

The Flight to Varennes June 1791 Royal Family tries to escape to the safety of the Austrian Netherlands and are discovered. Emigres – nobles and army officers who fled France

A Bourgeois Government Constitutional Monarchy –Louis XVI (in a very weak position) –Legislative Assembly Elected by people who paid taxes (excluded 1/3 of male population) Split into three factions –Conservatives –Moderates –Radicals

Confirmation of Sedition King Louis XVI to the King of Prussia: –“I have just addressed myself to the emperor, the empress of Russia, and to the kings of Spain and Sweden; I am suggesting to them the idea of a congress of the chief powers of Europe, supported by an armed force, as the best means of checking seditious parties, of establishing a more desirable order of things, and of preventing the evil which afflicts us from reaching the other states of Europe.” Your good brother, Louis.

The First Coalition & The Brunswick Manifesto (August 3, 1792) FRANCE AUSTRIA PRUSSIA BRITAIN SPAIN PIEDMONT Duke of Brunswick  if the Royal Family is harmed, Paris will be leveled!! This military crisis undermined the new Legislative Assembly.

France at War Army –Disadvantage: Lack of officers and discipline –Advantage: Cause and Spirit Fear from Inside and Outside Sans-Culottes – Parisian mob Jacobins growing in power

The Weapon of the Revolution