1. The French Revolution
"Bourgeois" Phase:

2. Convening the Estates General May, 1789
Last time it was called into session was 1614!

3. “The Third Estate Awakens”
They proclaimed themselves the “National Assembly” of France.

4. “The Tennis Court Oath” by Jacques Louis David
June 20, 1789

5. Storming the Bastille, July 14, 1789
It held 7 prisoners [5 ordinary criminals & 2 madmen].

6. The Great Fear: Peasant Revolt (July 20, 1789)

7. The Path of the “Great Fear”

8. Night Session of August 4, 1789

9. The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of Paris.
The Tricolor (1789)
The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of Paris.
Citizen!

10. The Tricolor is the Fashion!

11. The “Liberty Cap”: Bonne Rouge

13. Revolutionary Symbols
Cockade
Liberté
La Republic
Revolutionary Clock

14. Revolutionary Playing Cards

15. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

16. March of the Women, October 5-6, 1789
A “spontaneous” demonstration of Parisian women for bread.

17. Planting the Tree of Liberty
1790

18. Sir Edmund Burke (1790): Reflections on the Revolution in France
The conservative response to the French Revolution

19. How to Finance the New Govt.? 1. Confiscate Church Lands (1790)
One of the most controversial decisions of the entire revolutionary period.

20. 2. Print Assignats

22. 83 Revolutionary Departments
February 26, 1790

23. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen (1791)
Olympe de Gouges ( )
Women played a vital role in the Revolution.
But, The Declaration of the Rights of Man did NOT extend the rights and protections of citizenship to women.
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen (1791)

24. This military crisis undermined the new Legislative Assembly.
The First Coalition
AUSTRIA PRUSSIA BRITAIN SPAIN PIEDMONT
FRANCE
This military crisis undermined the new Legislative Assembly.

25. French Soldiers & the Tricolor: Vive Le Patrie!

26. French Expansion: