1. The Liberal Phase

2. The first phase of the French Revolution was considered moderate in comparison to what came later
Prior to the meeting of the Estates General, Louis XVI asked all French people to write down their grievances (cahiers de doleances)

3. As the Estates General in 1789
Disagreements broke out over:
To double the size of the delegates to the Third Estate.
Whether the delegates should vote as individuals or by orders

4. The pamphlet What Is The Third Estate
The pamphlet What Is The Third Estate? By clergyman Abbe Sieyes stroked discontent
June 17, 1789 – the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly
June 20th – N.A. pledges not to disband until they have written a new constitution (Tennis Court Oath)

5. Unsure of what to do, the king begins raising an army possibly to disperse the National Assembly
June 14, 1789 – the crowds of Paris march on the Bastille (saved the N.A. and shows the power of mob violence)
Revolutionaries form a National Guard to protect the revolution

6. The king is forced to recognize the N. A
The king is forced to recognize the N.A. and orders the other two estates to sit with the new body
June-August 1789 – the Great Fear takes place
To reestablish order, the N.A. dismantles the entire feudal system (night of August 4th)

7. August 26, 1789 – the N.A. completes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
October 1789 – women of Paris march on Versailles and force the royal family to return to Paris
The actions of women to protect the revolution are termed the October Days

8. By the end of 1789, the revolutionaries succeeded in restructuring the French state
From November 1789 through July 1790, the N.A. attacked the privileged and the Church
It confiscates Church lands and issues paper currency which results in rapid inflation

9. The Church is brought under state control
With the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, all priests are required to swear an oath of loyalty to the revolution
Nonjuring clergy are those who did not take the oath

10. June 1791 – the N.A. completed the Constitution of 1791
Active citizens are those who owned substantial property
Passive citizens are the less well-to-do and women
The revolution was in the hands of the wealthy bourgeoisie

11. The king and his family decide to flee France
They are stopped just short of safety
July 1791 – a crowd gathers to demand the overthrow of the king and the declaration of a republic

12. The Jacobin Club grows in influence and later produces many of the important leaders of the radical phase of the revolution
Emigres from France heighten tensions by working against the revolution from abroat