1. CHAPTER THREE
SECTION ONE
THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION

2. State Standard
Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.

4. The Rise of the Bourbon Dynasty
Henry of Navarre “Paris is well worth a mass”
1598 Edict of Nantes- religious freedom
Unifies France-ends religious conflict
Assassinated 1610

7. The Reign of Louis XIV
A background of fear- Cardinal Mazarin
noble uprisings-due to Mazarin’s policies
Violent repression

9. Louis takes power 1661
The Sun King
“L etat, c’est moi”
Centralization of government control- increase power of
Intendants (governors) at expense of nobility
Cancelled Edict of Nantes

12. The Gilded Prison of Versailles
Gathering of the nobility
State support of Nobility
Maintenance of social status
The person of the king
Arts and architecture
Nobility dependent on King
The Cost?

26. The Peasants could pay no more taxes and the nobility refused to pay
The Crisis-By the mid-1780’s, France was on the verge of bankruptcy
The Peasants could pay no more taxes and the nobility refused to pay

27. The Old Regime of France had been in power since the Middle Ages
The Three Estates:
First=clergy
Second= nobility
Third=Everybody else

28. In May 1789, the Estates General was convened in order to change the system of taxation

32. June 20, 1789-Third Estate locked out

33. The Third Estate delegates were forced to find a new place where they swore the Tennis Court Oath to draw up a new Constitution

34. Delegates of the Third Estate declare themselves to be a new government of France called The National Assembly

36. The Great Fear- Mobs formed all over France.
Peasants attack homes of nobility
Aristocrats (émigrés) flee country- raise armies.
Some aristocrats renounce titles and privileges.

38. Louis XVI agreed to recognize the National Assembly
Troops called to Versailles.
Sans-Culottes mob attacks the Bastille on July 14, 1789.