Reading Guide – World History Honors
Chapter 33: The French Revolution and the Empire of Napoleon
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pg. 434-436
a. Introduction
b. The Background of the Crisis
c. Constitutional Monarchy
i. Calling the Estates
ii. What is the Third Estate? (pg. 436, Society & Economy box)
iii. The National Assembly and Its Constitution
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pg. 437-439
a. Jacobin Terror
b. Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) (pg. 438, Law and Government box)
c. Reaction to Consolidation
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pg. 439-444
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i. The Bonapartist Era Opens
ii. The Civil Code of 1804 (pg. 441, Law and Government box)
French Dominion Over Europe
Napoleon: Pro or Con
pg. 444-446
a. The Vienna Settlement
i. Overall Estimate of the Vienna Settlement
ii. Tallyrand (1754-1836) (pg. 445, Law and Government box)
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ideas that emerged from the French
Revolution
Causes of the Revolution
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Estates General
The Three Estates
The National (Constituent) Assembly/Oath
of the Tennis Court
What is the Third Estate?/ Emmanuel Sieyes
Storming of the Bastille
The Great Fear
The March of the Women
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen
Olympe de Gouges
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Constitution of 1791
Émigrés
The Counterrevolution
The Jacobins
The National Convention
The Reign of Terror
The Guillotine
Execution of the King & Queen
The Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre
Egalite! Liberte! Fraternite!
Successes of the Jacobins
Levee en Masse
Republic of Virtue
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Sans-culottes
Law of 22 Prairial
Thermidorean Reaction
The Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coup d’etat
Napoleon as First Consul
The Concordat
The Civil Code of 1804
Napoleon as Emperor
Battle of Trafalgar
The Russian Campaign, 1812
Battle of Nations,1813
Surrender of Paris
The successes of Napoleon
The failures of Napoleon
Elba
The Vienna Settlement
The Hundred Days Campaign/Waterloo
St. Helena
The Big Four at Vienna
Guidelines for the reconstruction of Europe
Talleyrand
Alexander I
Frederick William III
Prince Metternich
Louis XVIII
Quadruple Alliance
Pros and Cons of the Vienna Settlement
Reading Guide – World History Honors