• Identify the events
you learned about
in the Moderate
Phase on the
timeline that I
provided to you on
Handout 2a!!!
• Chronicle the events
of the Moderate
Phase of the French
Rev
• Analyze the
PERSIAGM effects
of the French
Revolution on
Europe
1. Moderate Phase
(National/Legislative
Assembly) 1789-1791
– France becomes a
Constitutional
Monarchy
2. Radical Phase 17921794
– Reign of Terror
3. The Directory 17951799
4. Age of Napoleon
1799-1815
G = Gov action
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
FM = French Mob action
Great Fear starts after Bastille Day (FM)
NA writes Dec Rights of Man in S-1789 (G)
Women’s March on Versailles in S-1789 (FM)
NA takes power from Clergy (G)
June 1791, Louis XVI caught fleeing France (G)
Constitution of 1791 (G)
Legislative Assembly made (EG-NA-LA)
7. War begins when France reacts to Declaration of Pillnitz (G)
8. Great Fear inside from 1789-1792 gets worse and worse (FM)
• King has no
answers for
bankruptcy
scare…hmm
• His next action will
open the door to
revolution that he
won’t be able to
close
• Estates General in 1788
– Jacques Necker, Nobles
and Bourgeois ask for the
EG to be called
– Hasn’t met in 175 years!!!
• Cahiers are created in
early 1789
– Each estate throughout
France makes one to send
to the Estates General
– What is a Cahier?
– Everyone gets in on this!!!
• Clergy’s Grievances
– True monarchy kept
• Upholds law
• Laws must be made with
his consent
– Estates General should
exist too 
• King has right to call it…
• at least every 5 years
• Vote by order/head?
– No tax w/o consent of
nation
– Every citizen has sacred
right to personal liberty
and to property…
• Nobility’s Grievances
– Personal Liberties (person &
property)
• Writ of Habeas Corpus, Trial,
Speech and Press (w/except)
– Taxes = only w/consent
– One code of laws for all
– National Education for all
– Constitution should be made
that makes indissolvable EG
• EG has Leg power…
• King = ???
– Military oath should be to
king and…
• 3rd Estate Grievances
– No nobility…No Serfdom
– Rights…Writ of Habeas Corpus
– Taxes…should be for the good of the country
• Corvee (peasant chores) & banalite (peasant dues) OUT
• All should be taxed
• Taille replaced with land tax!! (salt tax )
– Justice System be reformed
• Merit system and positions for all
– Military Reform
• Nobles are not exempt from service
• Joining should be voluntary
– Old Privileges eliminated
• Hunting rights extended
• 1st Estate/Order = 300
Members (some liberal)
• 2nd Estate/Order = 300
Members (some liberal)
• 3rd Estate/Order = 600
Members (most are lib)
• Big Issue is?
– Vote by
• Order
• Head
• Break off the EG and
become…
– National Assembly
• “we are majority”
• “we represent France”
• What else does the NA do?
– Invites other 2 estates to
join…do they join?
• To make a
Constitution
• What does Louis
XVI do? 
– Tries to lock them
out of their meeting
hall
• What does the NA
do?
• What gives them the right?
• What don’t they have? What can Louis XVI do
to them?
• Who bails them out? 
• When?
– July 14, 1789
• What causes it? (2)
– Rumors of French army coming!!!!!!!!
– Jacques Necker fired
• French mob reacts to rumors
– Goes to Bastille for ammo
– Mob takes over fort
– Tons of Bloodshed
• Sans-Culottes
– Working poor
of 3rd estate
– Urban
– Very Radical
– Large % of
population in
Paris
– “Mad as hell
and...”
• Think PERSIAGM
– Royal Power looks
weak
• Louis XVI does
NOTHING
– National Assembly is
saved…
• sword bails out pen
• What happened?
• Who are they?
• Why did they leave?
• When they escape
to surrounding
countries, what do
they do?
• What do they want?
• What is its impact??
• How will other European
Monarchs feel? How
will they react?
– Close borders
– Control their “3rd estates”
– Plot to help Louis XVI
• Especially Austria…why?
• Moderates (in
charge) make 
– National Guard
• Protest groups
• Political Clubs…
• Newspapers
– Jean Paul Marat’s “The Friend of the People”
• Will tell Sans-culotte what to do
• Literary Terrorist
• What actions did
they perform in
unison?
• National Assembly
from 1789 to 1791
– EG-NA-LA-NC
• Mob revolts push NA
to act fast
• First big action by NA
is…
– August 4 1789 =
____________is
abolished
– Nobles lose tax and
legal privileges
• Completed Late
August 1789
• Modeled after…?
• Pair Work…
• Big proclamations?
– Protect natural rights
– Equality
– Any French man can
hold office
– Fairer taxes
– Freedom of Speech,
Press, Religion
• Problems w/ Dec?
• Not accepting
the reforms
• Plans to
retake Paris
from NA and
Radicals
• Thinks
Palace of
Versailles
protects
him…ha!!!
• Bread for starving
children
• Marie Antoinette’s
blood!! (Louis too)
– Why?
• Hated Marie for being a
symbol of
extravagance
• Details of it?
– 1st estate loses…
•
• Power…how?
• Reaction to it?
– RC Church is
MAD!!!
• Why is this a big
deal?
• It will last for less than 1
year!!
• Type of Gov Created…
– 3 branches
• National Assembly (NA)
is now called…
– Legislative Assembly (LA)
• One chamber Leg...
• King = ???
• Who could vote?
• Rights?
• Think Pyramid…who
made it?
– Bourgeois (Lawyers)
and Nobles
• Only taxpaying male
citizens vote
• Few men are eligible
for LA
• Nobles get back land
from peasants
• But this 1st
Constitution is
already
threatened
before it is done!
– Louis XVI…
– External
Enemies…
– LA is splitting
• NA does not promise Constitution
will keep him as King
• Marie Antoinette = Secret Agent
• Flee on June 20, 1791
• Goal of this journey?
• Axel von Fersen leads the
escape!!!
• Royal family disguised as
servants
• Halfway through trip, Louis
makes von Fersen leave…why?
• Stopped close to
Belgian (Why
Belgium?) border
• Royalist troops
come to HELP
HIM
• Louis chooses not
to have armed
conflict and waits
• National Assembly
orders him to be
returned
Left =
Mountain
(Libs/Radicals)
Center =
Girondins
(Moderates)
Right =
Conservatives
or Royalists
-Sans-culottes
supported them
-mostly middle
class lawyers
-Biggest group
-growing in
power
-Wrote the
Constitution
-want
moderate
change
-Want the
country to go
back to the old
absolute
monarchy
• Led by Maximilien Robespierre, George
Danton and journalist Jean-Paul Marat
• Made Late
August
1791
• Made by…
– Austrian
Emperor
Leopold II
– Prussian
King
Frederick
William II
• What did it say?
What did it NOT
say?
• Overzealous
Legislative Assembly
reacts
– France declares war
on Austria in April
1792
– Then Prussia
– Then GB