Review
 What are the three estates?
 What words could be used to describe
French society at that time?
 Why does King Louis call the Estates
General?
 What happens during and after the
meeting of the Estates General?
 What does the 3rd Estate want?
RADICALISM OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Essential Question
 How did the Revolution
become more radical and
what were the effects?
Fear and Paranoia Spread
 June 1789 - Louis calls troops to Paris in
case he needs to maintain order if he
moves against the National Assembly
 People become paranoid/nervous
Storming of the Bastille
 Fearful citizens in
Paris attack the
Bastille in response
 Old prison. Stored
gunpowder,
weapons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pO2DnAMzos
Rise of the Jacobins
 Radicals – very
extreme
 Want a Republic, total
equality, control of
economics (ex. Bread
prices)
 No king
Execution of the King
 Louis tries to escape to Austria but is
caught
 Louis is put to trial and convicted of
treason against France
 Executed in January 1793
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=XB5fyimVXUo
Reign of Terror Begins
(July 1793 - July 1794)
 Formation of the Committee of Public
Safety
 CPS controls the government
 CPS is in charge of protecting the
republic from “enemies”
 Enemy = anyone who disagrees with the
CPS
Robespierre and the Reign of
Terror
 Maximilien Robespierre is the leader of CPS
 Governs France through fear
 Guillotine – capital punishment device
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo5BBHtn4tM
 Goes after nobles and fellow revolutionaries
who could challenge his power
 Deports priests
 No more Catholicism, wants Atheism
 Approx. 40,000 people were executed
Directions
 Work silently on the
“Radicalism of the
Revolution” sheet
 Turn in when finished
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ouNRA
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