1. The French Revolution

2. Government Before the Revolution Old Regime Monarchy: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

3. Versailles Palace

6. Three Classes –First Estate: Religious Leaders –Second Estate: Nobles –Third Estate: Peasants, Middle Class

7. The Three Estates

8. Why did the French Revolt King Louis XVI was a weak King French Government was bankrupt, because of aid to the Americans for their Revolution The Poor was heavily taxed The Nobles wanted the King’s Power

9. Leaders of the Revolution Marquis de Lafayette- French War hero, chief of the Paris police Georges Jacques Danton: Leader of the Civic Guard of Paris, and assistant prosecutor of the Paris Commune Charles Tallyrand: Agent General of the French clergy.

10. Maximillian Robespierre: First Deputy of National Convention, Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, personally had thousands murdered for treason Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guilotin: elected to the National Assembly in 1789, helped invent the guillotine

11. Events of the Revolution May 1789: All Three Estates meet together June 20 1789: Tennis Court Oath: Promise to unite to create a Constitution July 14, 1789: Storming of the Bastille prison, August 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man (French Declaration and Constitution)

12. The Meeting of the Estates General

13. The Tennis Court Oath

14. October 1791: Assembly limits King’s Power Spring 1792: Committee of Public Safety- executed thousands for treason January 1793: Louis XVI executed 1795: Five Man Directory created 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte takes control of Directory 1804: Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France

15. Government after Revolution 1. Weak National Convention (French Congress) 2. Committee of Public Safety 12 member group which actually controlled France after 1793 until 1794 3. Five Man Directory created and an Assembly until Napoleon took control

16. Napoleon Bonaparte: French General, Member of Five Man Directory, declared Emperor of France

17. Consequences of the Revolution Declaration of Rights of Man gives T. Jefferson ideas for the Bill of Rights The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France The End of the French Monarchy