1. Causes and Consequences
French Revolution 1789
Causes and Consequences

2. What did the monarchical structure look like before the revolution?
Monarch and the three estates

3. Why did the French Revolution take place?
Enlightenment Ideology
Economic conditions

4. Estates General

5. What happened during and after the convention of the Estates General?
Disagreements between the estates
Emergence of the National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Outbreak of the popular revolt
Storming of Bastille
The Nobles renounces all their feudal rights (August 4, 1789)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 26, 1789)

6. Tennis Court Oath

7. Storming of Bastille July 1789

8. Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Article 1
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.
Article 2
The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Article 3
The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.

9. Moderate Stage of the Revolution
1790: Civil Constitution of the Clergy
1791: Constitution

10. Radical Stage of the Revolution
Sans- culottes
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror

11. Radical Stage
Sans- Culottes

12. Reactionary Stage of the Revolution
People turning against the Committee of Public Safety
Foundation of the Directory
Rebellion against the Directory

13. Napoleonic Era Negotiations with the Church Civil Code
Efficient Bureaucracy and Tax Collection
Defeat of other European states
But Russian resistance ended with Congress of Vienna

14. Napoleon Bonaparte

15. Napoleonic Empire, 1811

16. Consequences of the French Revolution
Nation-State
Nationalism
Secularization
Liberalism
Central Armies and Wars
Centralization and Bureaucracy

17. Liberté Egalité Fraternité