1. Causes of the French Revolution

2. Take notes from the film
List the 3 causes of the French Revolution.
Describe who are the 3 Estates.
First Estate –
Second Estate –
Third Estate -
3. What U.S. document gave the French peasants the incentive to revolt?

3. What do we
see in the
picture?

4. People of France were divided into three estates:
FIRST ESTATE: made up of clergy of the Roman Catholic Church;
scorned Enlightenment ideas ----
(owned 10% of all land)

6. SECOND ESTATE: made up of rich nobles
Held the highest offices in government
Disagreed with Enlightenment ideas
Owned 20% of all land

8. Had no power to influence government Embraced Enlightenment ideas
3. THIRD ESTATE: included bourgeoisie, urban lower class, and peasant farmers
Had no power to influence government
Embraced Enlightenment ideas
98% of population

10. WEAK LEADERSHIP: Louis XVI became king in 1774
Liked to spend large amounts of money
Borrowed heavy in order to help the Americans with their war
Bankers refused to lend the government any more money

12. Louis XVI spent his time hunting, or tinkering with locks instead of attending to the details of governing
Married Marie Antoinette when he was 15 and she was was 14
Marie was from Austria, enemy of France
Very unpopular with the people

13. Liked to spend money on jewels, gowns, and gifts
Became known as “Madame Deficit”

15. The Marble Court

18. Latona Basin

21. Chapel Royal

22. REVOLUTION BEGINS:
Third estate unhappy with the heavy taxes & started to rebel
Storming of the Bastille: July 14,1789, mob tried to get gunpowder and weapons from the prison at Bastille.
Bastille =‘ed tyranny to the peasants
Angry crowd stormed the prison and took control

23. Became a symbol for the revolution (national holiday today, similar to the U.S. Fourth of July)

24. TERROR GRIPS FRANCE:

25. Radicals execute the King in 1792
Jacobin Club: radical group made up of middle class citizens, found the king guilty of treason and sentenced him and his wife to be killed

26. Killed thousands of people who were “enemies of the republic”
Maximilien Robespierre: leader of the radicals, started the “Reign of Terror”—
Killed thousands of people who were “enemies of the republic”
85% were common people

27. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:

29. 7 Causes of the French Revolution
1. Inequalities among classes
2. Third Estate ready to revolt
3. Soaring national debt
4. Failed Economic Reform
5. Soaring Food Prices
6. Bread Riots Spread
7. Parisians Storm the Bastelle

32. Answers

33. C – it had no political voice
A –The Third Estate is the backbone of France