1. French
Revolution!

3. -Events that happen to trigger an event
SHORT TERM causes
-Events that happen to trigger an event
LONG TERM causes
-events that happen over a long period of time

4. Life in France in the 18th century
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
The nobility
The bourgeoisie
The town workers
The peasants

5. EVENT: American Revolution
America has just had a revolution
This revolution got rid of the British King and Queen and caused America to become an independent country
TAX- peasants pay one coin, town workers one coin and everyone else nothing!

6. EVENT: Country running out of money!
King is running out of money. Wars and lavish spending has caused this!
The Bourgeoisie and nobles won’t give the king any more money
What do you think the king will do?
TAX- Peasants pay one coin, town workers pay one coin

7. EVENT: Enlightenment
New ideas that attack the church and the King (people with power)
The ideas include the fact that ordinary everyday people such as peasants should get a say in how the country is run

8. EVENT: Harvest Fails!
Peasants-You don’t have enough money or food to feed you families
Bourgeoisie and Town workers- you don’t want to pay more taxes as you only just have enough money to get by!

9. What sort of person does this picture make Marie Antoinette seem like?

10. Should we behead them? Marie Antoinette -Queen of France
-Lavish lifestyle.
She spent lots of money on clothes, make-up, shoes and gambling
People believe that she is having affairs

11. The Revolution begins
Chapter 19

12. Bellwork Mob- a large crowd of rioting people
Bastille- the royal fortress prison in Paris
Constitution- the laws for the running of a country
Feudal Documents- a lord’s papers showing who owes him what

13. Storming the Bastille July 14th 1789
Angry mob takes the law into their own hands
Rioted and attacked the royal fortress prison
Bastille was seen as a symbol of the King and his government

14. Storming the Bastille con’t
Mob killed the governor of the prison(Marquis de Launay)
Soldiers around the prison didn’t stop the attack
IMPORTANT- shows that King Louis XVI has also lost control of the army

15. Feudal documents destroyed
Peasants were also losing patience
Took part in widespread attacks on the chateaux and palaces of their lords
“The whole country is in the greatest agitation. Many chateaux have been burned and others plundered. The lords hunted down like beasts. Their feudal documents burned. Their property destroyed. – Arthur Young

16. The Declaration of the Rights of Man
August 4th National Assembly passes a law which abolished all feudal privileges and unjust taxation.
No more church tithes, no feudal dues, and no private companies keeping of the taxation
Between August 12-26th Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man

17. Con’t Nothing about women or slaves
Nothing about who was going to impose these new laws
Sept the assembly and King appointed new middle class officials
Elected by the people, to take charge of local government
Intendants, replaced the former agents of the King

18. The Declaration of the Rights of Man
“ Men are born equal and remain free and equal in rights which are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. Liberty is being able to do whatever does not harm others. The law should express the will of the people. All citizens have a right to take part personally, or through their representatives, in the making of the law. Every citizen can talk, write, and publish freely, unless the liberty is abused in a way which breaks the law.”

19. The New Constitution
Over the next two years, the members of the Three Estates –as the Assembly– worked together to hammer out a new constitution

20. Main Features Assembly to be elected every two years
By men who paid a certain level of taxation
King was to be called ‘King of French’ not ‘King of France’
Kind could delay the passing of a law for 3 years
83 new departments were created to be centers for local governments
Judges, deputies, tax-collectors and priests were elected by the people

21. New Constitution New taxation system Church lands were nationalized
Based on income
A new currency the assignat
Church lands were nationalized
Income from the sale would pay off government debt
Church tax (tithe) was abolished
Marriages were civil ceremonies in front of state officials

22. New Constitution Divorce was introduced
Priests had to take an oath of loyalty to the state
Some saw this as an attack of the power of bishops and on the Pope

24. The King and the Revolution
King Louis XVI
The King and the Revolution

25. What sort of man was Louis XVI?
Came to the throne in 1774
Absolute monarch
Believed his power had been given to him by God
He was a “family man”
Dominated by his wife Marie-Antoinette
She was subject to rumors about expensive clothes and over spending
Also about how she interfered with with Louis’s attempts to govern the country

26. How did Louis respond to the events of 1789-91?
Louis did not know what he should do
He was captured by a mob, but refused to use force on them
Claimed to play the role of a ‘constitutional monarchy’
Between signed decrees from the Assembly so they became law
Singed an oath of loyalty when the constitution was proclaimed

27. Newspaper article
You are going to write a newspaper article report for ‘Le News on Louis’s attempted escape
You will need:
A headline
A picture
As many details of the event that you can find