1. Causes & Events of Blood and Fear
The French Revolution
Causes & Events of Blood and Fear

2. The Great fear- rumors of attacks on villages, government seizing territory.
Fueled by famine and fear, peasants revenged against the Nobles
Paris prepared- Lafayette held the National Guard in Paris to respond to royal troops
Tricolor- Red, Blue and White, later to be the national colors
Events:

4. Events: Tennis Court Oath
(1789) The top of the Third Estate, (bourgeoisie), makes themselves representatives of the ‘general will’, (peasants), and forms the National Assembly
Clergy and Nobles invited to join this Assembly
Days after its creation, the Assembly was locked out…on purpose???
The Tennis Court Oath!!!
Rumor of the king getting rid of the Assembly
Events: Tennis Court Oath

5. Events: Storming the Bastille
Bastille Day! July 14th 1789!!!!!
Rumors fly and the peasant REVOLT!!!!
Peasants think the king is getting rid of National Assembly, so they attempt to take over the prison, (Bastille) go get weapons
No weapons found so they released the prisoners
Symbol of the beginning of the French Revolution
Events: Storming the Bastille

7. Events: Declaration of the Rights of Man
To solve the upheaval after the Bastille, the National Assembly answers with the Declaration of the Rights of Man
Similar to the Declaration of Independence
Nobles gave up their traditional rights, and ended “feudalism”
Created equality of all citizens, (men) before the law, all men the right to hold office, freedom of religion, tax based on ability to pay
Louis XVI accepted new rights.
Events: Declaration of the Rights of Man

8. “ Let Them Eat Cake ”: Women March to Versailles
Angered by hunger, poverty, and inability to provide for their children, the women have their say.
Bread riots flare up due to the price of bread (a staple)
October 5, ,000 woman marched 12 miles to Versailles to bring the King and Queen to Paris to see first hand the suffering
The women storm the palace demanding two things: bread & the King, Queen and their son to move back to the capitol
They never returned to Versailles
Marie Antoinette, most hated woman in France!
“ Let Them Eat Cake ”: Women March to Versailles

9. The women refused to leave Versailles until the Royal Family left.
Crowds cheered the King, who wore the new national colors. People were happy to see the King move closer to them.
The moved showed Louis XVI’s effort to reform for the people
Cheers will soon turn to jeers-people still unhappy with King
Travelin Man

10. Tuileries Prison King and Queen had little control in their new palace
National Assembly moved to Paris as well to draft what will be know as the Civil Constitution, 1790
Assembly wants to take and sell lands owned by the church and use the money to pay off Deficit.
Bishops and clergy now had to be elected and put on government wages
Pope condemned it, even peasants disagreed with it
Tuileries Prison

11. This major disagreement drew the line between conservative peasants and revolutionaries
Battle Lines

12. Constitution 1791 Gives Louis XVI veto power…he vetoed everything!!
Limited Monarchy
Legislative Assembly- made laws, collect taxes, and decide when to war and when to sign for peace, elected officials
Only taxpaying men could run for election
Protect private property
Support free trade
Constitution 1791

14. 1791 King Louis XVI tried to escape Paris with his family and head out of France
Caught by a soldier who recognized the family, the Royals were viewed as traitors not supporting the changes for the better of France
…the mistakes we knew we were making…
King Louis XVI was arrested on August 13, 1792
King Louis convicted of treason by the National Assembly
Executed on January 21, 1793!
The King Can’t Win

16. So what now? 1791, Legislative Assembly got to work
Not able to handle the turmoil, it’s survival is short. Nations outside France were less then supportive, inside France the people wanted more radical change
Sans-culottes- working class
Want a republic and a guaranteed wage
Enter the Jacobins
So what now?

17. Who’s in Control? France is falling At war with surrounding nations
At war with peasants, clergy, royalists
At war with themselves, Jacobins v. Girdondins
Who’s in Control?

18. Jacobins Radical thinkers inside the Legislative Assembly
Middle-class lawyers/ intellectuals
Sat on the “left”
Gained power, made changes
Declared war on Prussia, Austria, and Britain
Fought from
Jacobins

19. Ordinary citizens, fueled by fear, anger, rumors and fact attacked and killed political prisoners and associates of the old regime
The French Republic is born at the National Convention 1792
Suffrage for all men
Radical changes, wipe out old ways, says “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!”
Let the Blood Flow

20. So What does the World Think?
French Plague- increased border patrols to prevent more emigres
European Rulers did not want these events/ideas to spread and spark in their own nation
British elites who supported the Americans did not do the same for the French
Declaration of Pilnitz from the Austrian King
So What does the World Think?

21. The Reign of Terror September 5, 1793 to July 27, 1794
Robespierre led the “Committee on Public Safety”—the mew governing body of FRA
Had any ‘un-virtuous’ enemy of the republic killed
Guillotine
16,000-40,000 killed—no record
Coup, botched suicide, guillotine
End of the Reign of Terror!
The Reign of Terror

22. Tomorrow We Enter the Reign of Terror Read pg 74-78 Do Questions 1-5
Don’t Forget Your Quiz!
Tomorrow