1. The French Revolution & Napoleon (1789-1815)
Salon: gathering ground for many who wished to discuss the ideas of the French Enlightenment
Lead to revolutionary talk
End o/t OLD ORDER (REGIME)
class system based on the THREE ESTATES
King Louis XVI
Queen Marie Antoinette
1st (1%) ___________________
2nd (2%)__________________
3rd (97%)_________________
Bourgeoisie – top wealthy o/t 3rd Estate

2. Who is represented?
What is the message?

3. CAUSES o/t French Revolution (July 1789)
Wealth GAP
Enlightenment Ideas
Louis XVI policies
Widespread hunger / cold
The ESTATES GENERAL
National Assembly is born
July 1789: the Storming of the BASTILLE
prison in Paris w/ numerous political prisoners
marks the beginning o/t F.R.

4. Creating a New Nation
Aug 1789: “Declaration o/t Right of Man and o/t Citizen”
Liberty, equality, fraternity
All men are born equal
Freedom of speech, press & religion
Sorry ladies, not yet.
Ended rights o/t clergy
1791: Legislative Assembly
War w/ Austria
Aug 1792: National Convention
Abolished the monarchy & declared France a Republic
Thus? ______________________

5. France is a Republic Jacobins: radicals The Reign of Terror
Jean-Paul MARAT
M. Robespierre
The Reign of Terror
Guillotine
To stop any counter-revolutionaries
Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette

6. NAPALEON BONAPARTE Born in Corsica proven military strategist
Defeats Brits at Toulon
Defeats Austria & Italy
Napoleon seizes power
Nov 1799 coup d’etat
crowns himself King
ruled as a Dictator

7. The Napoleonic Code Revision of French law Europe’s Map is redrawn
Foundation of many European legal systems
Bank of France
Public education system
K-12, Univ’s, tech schools
Europe’s Map is redrawn
spread Enlightenment ideas
placed family & friends in power
Continental System
economic warfare
blockaded Euro ports to England
Battle of the Pyramids
Attempted to disrupt British trade w/ India
Defeated by British in Egypt

8. Napoleon’s Defeat 1812: March on Russia Russia was an ally of England
Desire to disrupt trade btwn UK and Russia
The GRAND ARMY
Started w/ 600,000 soldiers
Scorched Earth tactics
Captured Moscow
Russians burn t/ city
Winter sets in
@ 94,000 soldiers returned to France
Battle o/t Nations
Napoleon abdicates

9. Napoleon’s Exile, Return, and Defeat
Napoleon exiled t/t Isle of Elba
Monarch restored
King Louis XVIII
The Hundred Days war
return of Napoleon
Monarch v. the People
European neighbors oppose his return
Battle of Waterloo(1815)
Napoleon defeated and returns to exile
Isle of St. Helena, S. Atlantic
Died in 1821

10. Congress of Vienna (winter of 1814-15)
After fall of Napoleon
Restore balance of power in Europe
Restore borders
Diplomacy NOT War
Legitimacy: restoration o/t European monarchies
Metternich of Austria was the most influential
French Revolution encouraged revolts in Latin America
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