1. Death of the King and Queen
Ch. 11 Section 1-2

2. Review The Deficit Abuses of the King and Queen The Estates General
Tennis Court Oath
The Storming of the Bastille

3. Chaos in France The Great Fear – vast panic that spread through France
Starving and scared peasants b/g to attack homes of nobles and steal grain from storehouses
National Assembly votes to destroy feudalism and aristocratic privileges
They adopt the Declaration of the Rights of Man

4. Liberty, Fraternity, Equality
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Modeled after the American Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution
Meets key goals of the Enlightenment
All men are equal in the eyes of the law
King Louis XVI refuses to accept the declaration

5. Women’s March to Versailles
Thousands of Parisian women march to Versailles armed with pitchforks, swords, pistols, etc.
The women…
Demanded bread for their starving children
Forced him to sign the Declaration of the Rights of Man
Broke into Versailles and tried to find the queen to kill her
They did not find her in their rage
They forced the royal family to go back to Paris

6. Death to the King and Queen
The royal family runs for the border into Austria
They will be recognized and caught
This is seen by the French people as running from their duty, abandoning their people, and treason
All that support the king’s return to power are killed by the guillotine
1793 – King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are found guilty of treason and beheaded by the guillotine
Revolutionaries b/l the monarch had to die for the revolution to live