1. Y12 History What do you know about the French Revolution and Napoleon
5 facts

2. Key players Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte King Louis XVI
Queen Marie Antoinette

3. Watch video –make a note of key events and people
French Revolution
Watch video –make a note of key events and people

4. Course outline The Causes of the French Revolution 1774-1789
(Interpretation)
The Revolution from October 1789-to the Directory, 1795
Napoleon Bonaparte
Decline and fall of Napoleon

5. Assessment and exams 1 and half hr exam
1 essay 50 mins –worth 30 marks
Choose 1 from 2 questions
e.g Assess the importance of financial factors in bringing about revolution in France in 1789?
I interpretation question 40 mins worth 20 marks
(no choice)
“Had the enlightenment put forward a real programme of political change? Probably not, but there is no denying that the Enlightenment encouraged probing criticism and led to calls for reform” -Francis Ford –Europe
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this interpretation, making reference to other interpretations that you have studied

6. Research the following areas:
Ancien Regime French Society before the Revolution (The Three Estates)
The Causes of the French Revolution - Political
- Financial
- Economic
- Social
- Ideological -Enlightenment
1789-The Meeting of the Estates General
The Great Fear
The Storming of the Bastille
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
1793-The Terror- led by Maximilien Robespierre
1799- Napoleon takes over
Investigate these key factors
What happened during these events?
What role did the key figures contribute to these events?

7. Holiday task
1)Create a time line of most important events of the French Revolution and the rule of Napoleaon
2)Write a biography of 2 of main participants in the Early years of the Revolution
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Jacques Necker
Charles de Calonne
The Philosophes –Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau, John Locke
Robespierre
Napoleon