1. The storming of the Bastille.
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2. Problems Facing the French Monarchy
Bad harvests in 1787 and 1788
One-third of the population is poor
Financial crisis
Summoning the Estates General

6. 300 delegates each to the First and Second Estate
The French Revolution
300 delegates each to the First and Second Estate
600 delegates to the Third Estate
Strong legal and urban presence
Cahiers de doléances
Estates General meets May 5, 1789
Question of voting by order or head
Abbé Sieyès “What is the Third Estate?”

8. National Assembly (1789) Constituted, June 17
The French Revolution
National Assembly (1789)
Constituted, June 17
Tennis Court Oath, June 20
 "never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations".

9. The Tennis Court Oath.
Finding themselves locked out of their regular meeting place on June 20, 1789, the deputies of the Third Estate met instead in the nearby tennis courts of the Jeu de Paume and committed themselves to continue to meet until they established a new constitution for France. In this painting, the Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David presents a dramatic rendering of the Tennis Court Oath.
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11. Intervention of the Common People
The French Revolution
Intervention of the Common People
Attack on the Bastille, July 14
Peasant rebellions, July 19-August 3
Great Fear

12. Destruction of the Old Regime
Seigneurial rights abolished, August 4, 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - August
The Women’s March to Versailles
October 5, 1789
Return the king to Paris

15. Destruction of the Old Regime
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
August 26
Does this include women?
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791

19. The American Revolution
Treaty of Paris
Forming a New Nation
Articles of Confederation,
Constitution, 1789
Bill of Rights, 1791
Impact of the American Revolution on Europe
Proof of Concept
Concept of freedom
Concept of rights

20. Common Elements of revolution
1. People from all social classes are discontented.
2. People feel restless and held down by unacceptable restrictions in society, religion, the economy or the govt.
3. People are hopeful about the future, but they are being forced to accept less than they had hoped for.
4. People are beginning to think of themselves as belonging to a social class, and there is a growing bitterness between social classes.
5. The social classes closest to one another are the most hostile.

21. Common Elements of revolution
6. The scholars and thinkers give up on the way their society operates.
7. The government does not respond to the needs of its society.
8. The leaders of the government and the ruling class begin to doubt themselves. Some join with the opposition groups.
9. The government is unable to get enough support from any group to save itself.
10. The government cannot organize its finances correctly and is either going bankrupt or trying to tax heavily and unjustly.