3. Revolution Brings Reform and Terror
The revolutionary government of France made reforms but also used terror and violence to retain power.
GOES FROM GOOD, TO BAD, TO UGLY VERY QUICKLY!!!
The French Revolution is going to evolve and some might even say, stray away from the very ideals that ignited this revolution. (LET’s TAKE A LOOK!!!)

4. Revolution Brings Reform and Terror
THE GOOD 
THE BAD
AND THE UGLY 

5. Key Terms/Names 1. Declaration of the Rights of Man
2. Legislative Assembly
3. Émigré
4. Sans-culottes
5. Guillotine
6. Maximillien Robespierre
7. Committee of Public Safety
8. Reign of Terror

6. La Marsailles Come, children of the Fatherland
Our day of glory has come!
Against us the bloody flag of tyranny is raised!
The bloody flag is raised.
Can you hear in the country
The shrikes of those ferocious soldiers?
They come to our very arms
To slaughter our sons and our wives
To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions!
March forth! March forth!
Let their impure blood water our fields!
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7. Critical Thinking
1. What mood does the song reflect? How does the music and lyrics capture the spirit of the French Revolution?
What thoughts/reactions/feelings would each of the following person have regarding this song?
King Louis XVI
Sans-culottes
Émigré

8. Star Spangled Banner
Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

9. Declaration of the Rights of Man
Adopted by the National Assembly
Guaranteed citizens equal justice, freedom of speech and freedom of religion
Offered popular souveriegnty
“LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY”
Negative~did not apply to women

10. A State-Controlled Church
The Catholic Church lost its lands and political independence
The National Assembly sells church lands to pay off France’s debt
Émigré
Clash between bourgeoisie and peasants (who were Conservative Catholics)
Created a DIVIDE between the peasants and bourgeoisie
From now on, the peasants would oppose further revolutionary change

11. Louis Tries to Escape
Many warned the king that he and his family were in danger.
Louis XVI and his family tries to escape from France
He is caught at the border, and returned back to Paris
He will eventually be tried as an “enemy” of the republic and executed (Marie Antoinette too!!!)

12. Conflicting Goals Cause Divisions
The National Assembly finally creates a constitution, a LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY in 1791
The Legislative Assembly has the power to create laws and declare war
Within the assembly, you have 3 factions:
Radicals
Moderates
Conservatives

13. War and Extreme Measures
Legislative Assembly declare war on Prussia and Austria
Monarchs and nobles from other European nations afraid of what was happening in France
“September Massacres”
Legislative Assembly give up the idea of a limited monarchy
France forced to start a draft

14. The Reign of Terror
The Jacobins and the Radicals gain strength and decide to wipe out any “enemy” of the state
Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the Committee of Public Safely, decides who is considered an enemy of the republic
Rules almost as a dictator from July 1793-July 1794

15. Reign of Terror (con’t)
Over 40,000 people killed in one year
75%+ of those killed from 3rd Estate! (The Revolution was supposed to be for them!

16. Death of Robespierre
Eventually the public withdrew support of Robespierre: too many senseless killings
Other members of the Committee of Public Safety wanted to kill him before he killed them
July 28, 1794 Robespierre publicly executed in Paris
His death signals the end of the Reign of Terror