What can buildings symbolize? For each image, answer the following questions: 1. What is the name of the building? 2. Where is this building? 3. What is this building used for? 4. What does this building represent?

FRENCH REVOLUTION Social Studies 9 Ms. Thind

The Revolution  Riots over high price of bread broke out in Paris.  Number of people arrested and kept in the royal prison.  Louis XVI sends mercenary troops to Paris and Versailles.

The Revolution  The fall of the Bastille on July 17, 1789  King agreed to send the troops away.  Citizens form the “National Guard”: a new army to keep order in Paris. Led by Lafayette

National Flag and Bastille Day  Bastille stormed in 1789, but holiday is commemorated as the 1790 Fête de la Fédération  France as a new democratic state.

The Great Fear  Revolution was spreading rapidly across France  people were worried the King and aristocrats would stop the revolution  lead to panic called the Great Fear.  Citizens began to raid mansions of the upper class, burn them, and kill anyone in sight.

 August 4, 1789 the National Assembly met in Versailles  abolished all feudal rights and declared all people equal before the law. YAY!!!!

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen  Passed by the National Assembly in August 1789 in Paris.  Contained ideas from Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke  Outlines basic human rights  Guarantees freedom of thought, speech, religion, security, and limits the power of government.  Result? Now National Assembly can work on a constitution, everyone was given the title “citizen”, and noble titles became obsolete.

Movement towards democracy did not fix the economic crisis in Paris. October 1789, women marched to Versailles to demand the Queen and King come to Paris.

 By 1790, many aristocrats departed for other countries.  By 1791, the queen and king and their children tried to escape  caught  Looked like they did not support democracy and their country  imprisoned.