THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION
BRIEF SUMMARY
• 1797-1799
• END OF ANCIEN RÉGIME (OLD, ABSOLUTIST FRENCH)
• CAUSES: FINANCIAL CRISIS, SOCIAL DISTRESS, ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL CRISIS, GROWING POPULATION, VARIETY OF TAX RATES
(AMONG REGIONS)
• CONVENTION OF THE 3 ESTATES-
VERSAILLE
• DISAGREEMENT IN VERIFYING THE
CREDENTIALS OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES
ESTATES OF • LED TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (THE
GENERALS COMMONS)-17 JUNE 1789
• MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY JOINED
THREE ESTATES: 1ST. CLERGY (303 • KING’S MEASURE: REFORM PACKAGE-
ELECTED) ROYAL SESSION OF THE ESTATES-GENERALS
2ND. NOBILITY (322
-MEETING PLACE OF THE COMMONS-CLOSED
ELECTED)
-MOVED TO A TENNIS COURSE
3RD. COMMONS (610 E.)
DATE: 5 MAY 1789, FRANCE -NOT DISPERSING UNTIL A NEW CONSTITUTION
• ON 27 JUNE XVI.LOUIS CAPITULATED
• HE COMMANDED THE OTHER ESTATES TO
JOIN THE ASSEMBLY
STORMING OF THE BASTILLE
• JULY 12 1789- ASSEMBLY’S NON-STOP SESSION
• SOLDIERS OF GARDES FRANCAISES REFUSED THEIR
DISPERSMENT
• JULY 14- SOLDIERS JOINED THE CROWD- ATTACKING
OF THE BASTILLE
• PARANOIA, BREAKDOWN OF LAW AND ORDER-
LYNCHING OF THE FORMER FINANCE MINISTER-
NOBILITY FLEW ABROAD
• THE IMMIGRANT’S FUNDING THE MONARCH
• LED TO THE AUGUST DECREES- ABOLISHING
FEUDALISM AND CHURCH TITH
THE AUGUST DECREES
• ABOLISHING FEUDALISM
• CANCELLING THE TAX
• 4 AUGUST 1789 EXCEPTION OF THE ARISTOCRATS
• SET OF 19 ARTICLES • ABOLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH
• DESTRUCTION OF THE TITH
ANCIEN RÉGIME • NEW JUDICIAL SYSTEM:
EVERYONE IS EQUAL BEFORE
THE LAW
CREATEMENT OF A NEW CONSTITUTION
• DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF CITIZEN- 26 AUGUST 1789
• IN OCTOBER, THE ASSEMBLY VOTED TO RESTRICT POLITICAL RIGHTS:
1. VOTING RIGHTS, TO "ACTIVE CITIZENS”
2. THE REMAINDER WERE DESIGNATED "PASSIVE
CITIZENS", RESTRICTED TO "CIVIL RIGHTS„
• BY MID-1790, THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
WERE IN PLACE, ALTHOUGH THE CONSTITUTION WAS NOT ACCEPTED BY
LOUIS UNTIL 1791
THE AFFECTS ON THE CHURCH
• MASSIVE SHIFT OF POWER FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO THE STATE-
CAUSED BY THE REVOLUTION
• ELIMINATION OF TOLERANCE FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
• CHURCH: LARGEST INDIVIDUAL LANDOWNER
• CONTROLLING NEARLY 10% OF ALL ESTATES
• ON 2 NOVEMBER THE ASSEMBLY CONFISCATED ALL CHURCH PROPERTY
• DISSOLVED MONASTRIES AND ORDERS; MONKS, NUNS: PRIVATE LIFE- 13
FEBRUARY 1789
• CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY OF 12 JULY 1790- MADE THEM
EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE
• NOVEMBER 1790: REQUIRED THEM TO SWORE LOYALTY TO THE
CONSTITUTION-MAJORITY REFUSED
• LED TO EXECUTION, DEPORTION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CLERGY
EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
• END OF THE MONARCHY
• CHANGES IN SOCIETY: RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, GROWTH OF
NATIONALISM
• RISE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
• END OF FEUDALISM
• ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL LAWS, FAIR REPRESENTATION OF ALL
CITIZENS
• END OF ROCOCO STYLE
• BEGGINING OF NEOCLASSICISM IN FRANCE
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