Constitutional Monarchy,
Republic, & War with Europe
Revolution of 1789 (No note-taking)
Players
*First Estate
*Second Estate
*Third Estate
*Populace
Events
* Tennis Court Oath
* National Assembly
* National Constituent
Assembly
* Bastille/Great Fear
* Dec. Rights of Man
and Citizen
* Constitution of 1791
I. The Three Estates (in 1789)
1. First Estate
2. Second Estate
3. Third Estate
II. Meeting of the Estates General
1. Aristocracy made 2 demands
a) 1st
b) 2nd
Problem?
2. Cahiers de doleances = (ordered by Louis
XVI) was a
a) list of grievances brought to royal palace
1) criticized
2) demanded
3. A stand-off b/c Third Estate refused to sit
as a separate
a) 3rd Estate invites _______&______ to
join them in organizing a new legislative
body.
b) some clergy
c) June 17 – they declare
d) June 19 – 2nd Estate
4. Tennis Court Oath
a) Day after 2nd Estate joins 3rd Estate
b) Vowed not to leave hand ball court until
c) Louis XVI then orders
So…goes from 1) Estates General to 2)
National Assembly to the renamed 3)
National Constituent Assembly to 4)
Legislative Assembly
III. Two new forces on the scene (Louis &
the populace)
1. Louis musters troops near
2. Populace reacts to this by
a)
b) July 1789 – citizens storm the
IV. Lafayette & the National Guard
1. Paris militia call on him to
2. Tri-color flag
3. Louis (again bowing to the immediate
circumstances) arrives in Paris
a)
b)
V. The Great Fear
1. Peasants attacked
2. Determined to take
3. Several liberal nobles and clerics
4. August 4, 1789, ALL French citizens
were subject to
VI. Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
Citizen
1. Drew on
2. Protected __________& ____________
but did not provide for
3. Women & march to Versailles
VII. Reconstruction of France
1. National Constituent Assembly
a) main goals
b) Political Reform
c) Active v. Passive Citizens
2. Departments
3. Metric System
4. Economic reform
a)
b) Chapelier Laws
1) banned guilds & strikes (why?)
c) confiscated Church lands
d) Assignats
5. Religious Reform
a) Civil Constitution of the Clergy
1) One of the assembly’s BIGGEST
mistakes (why?)
b) Refractory Clergy
VIII. Counterrevolutionary Activity
1. Emigres
2. Flight to Varennes
3. Declaration of Pillnitz
4. Meanwhile, things are contentious in
France
This is the end of the 1st Stage of the
Revolution. The 2nd Revolution would bring
an end to the monarchy.
IX. The Jacobins
1. One group that divides into 2 subgroups:
a) Mountain
1) wanted a Republic vs a
2) called Mountain b/c
3) leaders =
4) It’s when the Mountain allies with
the popular revolution (sansculottes) that the 2 sub-groups are
formed.
b. Girondists
1) called this b/c
2) assumed leadership in Leg. Assemb.
3) wanted a constitutional monarchy
4) April 1792 declare war on
5) Believed revolution had gone far enough
X. September Massacres
1. Paris citizens
XI. The Convention
1. Paris commune calls on Leg. Assembly to
elect a new Assembly to write a
_____________ ____________.
2. This new assembly is called the
Convention.
a) Its first act =
b) replaces
XII. Sans-culottes
1. Radical group of
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f) cooperate w/
XIII. Execution of a Monarch
1. Louis XVI charged with
2. Girondists wanted to
3. King beheaded January 21, 1793
4. The next month, the Convention
declared war on