The French Revolution and
Its Impact
Readings: Spodek, pp. 539-547
France is a Mess!!
 France was involved
in the American
Revolution from 17781783.
 Government was
unwieldy.
 Weather was a big
problem especially in
1788.
King Louis XVI
 He agrees to recall the
Estates General
 Spring of 1789 there was
the Cahiers de Doleances.
 May 5, 1789 The Estates
meet in Versailles.
 From May 5-June 17,
1789: The Third Estate
boycotts the Estates
General
The Revolution of 1789
 The Bastille is stormed
on July 14, 1789.
 “Freeing the
Enslaved”
Timeline of the French
Revolution (continued)
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Peasants Revolt
Weathervanes
Night of August 4
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
(August 27,1789)
 March on Versailles
 Constitution
 Abolished Ecclesiastical Orders
 Growing Power of Clubs
Timeline Continued
 Flight of King
 Committee of Public
 The Legislative
Safety becomes all
powerful
 Rules by General Will
 Robespierre is in the
center.
 They abolish slavery
Assembly
 War of the First
Coalition
 Violence in Paris
 The National
Convention
 Monarchy Abolished
Robespierre
Timeline continued
 Constitution of Year
III
 The Terror
 Fall of Robespierre
 The Directory
 Napoleon
Napoleon and Louis XVIII
 Napoleon makes
himself emperor
 Napoleonic Law Code
 Louis XVIII reigns as
a constitutional
monarch
St. Helena Island
Who Won and Who lost?
 Rich Males in the
 Women
short run
 All males in the long
run
 Maybe peasants or at
least some peasants in
some places
 Agrarian Worker
 Slaves after Napoleon
restores slavery
 The nobility who left
France
 The Church