1. The French Revolution Unfolds

2. Political Crisis Leads To Revolt
The Great Fear
Grain prices soared (some spent 80% income on bread)
Inflamed by famine and rumors
Ex: Attacks on villages, govt. troops seizing crops etc.
Peasant fury unleashed on nobles
Set fire to manor records, stole grain etc.
Paris Commune comes to power
Paris becomes the center of the Rev.
Factions (dissenting groups) compete to gain power
Paris Commune mobilizes neighborhoods
Replaces royalist govt. of Paris

3. The National Assembly Acts
Special Privileges end
Nobles vote to end their own privileges
Delegates abolish feudalism
Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen
Modeled on the Amer. Declaration of Independence
All men “born and remain free and equal in rights”

4. The National Assembly Acts cont.
Declaration of the Rights of Man cont.
Enjoy natural rights to ”liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression”
All male citizens were equal before the law
Equal rights for women not granted
Taxation based on the ability to pay
Slogan: “Liberty, Equality & Fraternity”

5. Women march on Versailles
6,000 women march 13 miles in the rain to Versailles
Anger at Marie Antoinette's extravagant lifestyle
Parties held at the place while commoners starved
Demanded they would not leave until the king returned to Paris

7. The National Assembly presses onward
The church is placed under state control
Civil Constitution ends papal authority and dissolves convents and monasteries
Angry reaction by bishops, priests, pope, and French peasants
The Constitution of 1791 establishes a new government
Replaces absolute monarchy with limited monarchy
Reflects Enlightenment goals

8. The National Assembly presses onward cont.
Louis’s escape fails
Royal family attempts disguised escape across the border
Louis dressed as a servant, Antoinette a governess
Louis is recognized by his image on a piece of currency
Louis's escape attempt makes him a traitor to the revolution

10. Radicals Take Over Rulers fear spread of revolution.
European rulers increase border patrols to stop “French plague”
Fears fueled by stories from émigrés
Nobles, clergy & others who fled France

11. Radicals Take Over cont.
Threats come from abroad
King of Prussia and emperor of Austria issue the Declaration of Pilnitz
Austria & Prussia threaten to intervene to protect the French monarchy
Revolutionaries in France prepare for war

12. Radicals Take Over cont.
Radicals fight for power and declare war.
Newly elected Legislative Assembly (survives less than a year)
Sans-culottes and Jacobins demand a republic
Sans-culottes-working class men & women who pushed the revolution into more radical action
Jacobins-Middle class lawyers or intellectuals. Used pamphlets to promote their republican cause

13. Radicals Take Over cont.
National Assembly declares war on tyranny
Radicals gain upper hand in Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria and Prussia