1. The Coming of the Revolution
Chapter 3-1
Lecture 2
The Coming of the Revolution
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2. Standard
Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
Essential Question: What events led up to the start of the revolution?

3. Dawn of the Revolution
May 5, 1789: Estates General meets at Versailles.
Each Estate has one vote – 1st two could out vote the 3rd
3rd Estate: Reps mostly bourgeoisie  Ideas shaped by Enlightenment

4. National Assembly Represented the people of France.
Passed Laws
Symbolic end of Absolute Monarchy and beginning of representative democracy
Vote was first deliberate act of revolution

6. The Tennis Court Oath
King had the 3rd estate locked out of their meeting room.
Broke down a door to an indoor tennis court
Refused to leave until they had drawn up a new Constitution that limited the power of the King.

8. The Storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789: Mob wants gunpowder from the Bastille (French prison)
Crowd overthrows king’s soldiers
Storming of the Bastille:
1st act of war

10. The Great Fear=Riots against the Monarchy
No Food
No money
The Great Fear=Riots against the Monarchy

12. Declaration of the Rights of Man
Drafted by Marquis de Lafayette
Modeled after the American Declaration of Independence
Written 13 years earlier
Natural Rights
Liberty, Property, Security, and Resistance to Oppression
= Rights to Hold Office for Males
No Distinction other than virtues and talents
Women upset that they were excluded

13. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Olympe de Gouges
Refused to accept the exclusion of women from political rights.
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
Ignored
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Rally cry for France

14. The National Assembly Presses Onward
National Assembly put the French Catholic Church under state control
Bishops & Priests = elected, $$$ officials
Constitution of 1791
Established Limited Monarchy
Legislative body able to make laws, collect taxes, and decide on issues of war and peace.
Louis attempts to escape
Called a traitor

15. Standards Check
What kind of government did the Constitution of 1791 set up?
What event signifies the beginning of the French Revolution?
What was the model for the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?