RAP
What would make you revolt against your government? Explain.
Today:
• French Revolution Ch. 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3
• Video—beginnings of Revolution

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Brief video clip of the story of the French
Revolution.
2. Popcorn read Ch. 11.1-French Revolution — take notes as we read.
This will stay in your notebook and will be checked. Follow the guidelines on your note –taker template.
Tomorrow:
1. Check and Review Ch. 11.1
2. Video clip of the French Revolution – 0 – 29
3. Read and take notes on Ch. 11.2
1. Follow the guidelines on your note taker. Due
Thursday

RAP
• Why were the people of
France unhappy?
• Who made up the three estates?

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Wednesday
Video clip of the French Revolution 0-29
Read and take notes on Ch. 11-The French Revolution: Section 2
Government
–Constitutional
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Thursday
Review Ch. 11.2
Ch. 11-The French Revolution: Sec.3- Dawn of a new era
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Friday
Review Ch. 11.3
Video Clip
Introduce Story book
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Monday
Ch. 11.4 Napoleon’s Empire
Work on storybook
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Tuesday
Turn in storybook of the French Revolution
Ch. 11.5 – Peace in Europe

• The revolution’s start was in the 1780s with resentment towards royal power, food scarcity and the rise of Enlightenment ideas.
– Equality
– Liberty
– Justice

The Old Order: French Society Divided
The Estates General

• First-Roman Catholic Clergy
– (about 1% of population; high and low clergy)
• Second-Nobility
– (about 2% of population; owned about 25% of land)
• Third- Bourgeoisie, Artisans, and
Peasants
– (97% of population, no voice in government)

Growing Unrest –Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
•Married to Louis XVI—
18 Years old. (Queen)
•From Austria
•Lavish lifestyle— parties, balls, etc.
1774, King of France-19 years old
(King)
•France in debt
•Supported the American Revolution
•Banks refused to lend government money
•Crops failed—bread shortages=starvation

• On June 20, 1789, the National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath
– Would not leave the tennis court until a new constitution had been made
(Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen)
• On July 14, 1789, the prison of Bastille was taken by the rebellion, and served as a symbol of the revolution
• Feudalism was abolished on August 4, 1789
• Violence in the countryside spread– Great Fear .
– This was the first wave of the French Revolution

• Video clip of the French Revolution
– (0-29)
• Please read and take notes on Ch. 11.2
– Follow the guidelines on the note taker template. HW if you do not finish.

RAP
What do you think of King Louis XVI and
Queen Marie Antoinette?
Today:
Review Ch. 11.2
18 minutes of French Revolution
Begin Ch. 11.3

• Begin reading and taking notes on Ch.
11.3
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• Declaration of Rights, 1789
– Enlightenment ideas
• Did not grant equal rights to women
• March to Versailles
– Women demand bread —October 1789
• King and National Assembly forced to move to
Paris.
– Unicameral legislature set up
• Males right to vote who paid minimum tax.
– Constitution of 1791- guarantees basic rights and limited monarchy.
• Many French people not happy.
– Disagreements and unrest
– Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette try to flee Paris

RAP
Define and explain (in context with the reading) these terms.
– Estate
– Tithe
– Bourgeoisie
– Émigré
– Conscription
Today:
• Read Ch. 11.3
• Video on French Revolution

RAP
• What was the reign of terror?
• What are some similarities and differences of the
American revolution and the French revolution?
TODAY:
• Review 11.4
• PPT on Napoleon—notes
• Get into storybook pairs.

• Radical phase started by 1792; led by Maximilien Robespierre
• King Louis XVI was executed
• The Reign of Terror occurred in which unpopular factions were destroyed
– Jacobins set out to crush all opposition.
– Marie Antoinette was a victim of the Terror.
• Constitution proclaimed male suffrage, slavery temporarily abolished and spirit of nationalism
• End of Terror – 1794 –
– Robespierre turned on his supporters – having them sent to the guillotine.
– Other leaders, fearing for their safety, turned on Robespierre and had him sent to the guillotine.
– The Jacobins now lost power and the Terror came to an end.
• Final phase of revolution occurred under Napoleon from 1799 to 1815 during which expansion of the French empire occurred.
• Parliament reduced in power, but religious freedom, equality for men, education, were promoted.

• Young general named Napoleon
Bonaparte
– Crushed an uprising in Paris streets in
1795
– 1796 married Josephine de
Beauharnais- leader of Paris society.
– Became commander of the French army
– 1799-fought the British over Egypt trade route
– October 1799, Napoleon came back to seize power over the Directory.
• Napoleon proclaimed a new constitution.
• The constitution actually set up a dictatorship.

Napoleon’s Empire
• Goals —restructure the government.
– Replaced elected local officials;
Education under national government; Created the Bank of
France; Every citizen pay taxes
• Napoleonic Code —greatest impact on French Law
– Based on Enlightenment ideas
– Equality of all citizens, religious toleration, advancement based on merit.
– However, State is put above the individual
• Limited freedom of speech and press
• Women also lost many of the rights they had gained.

Building an Empire
• 1804, he named himself Emperor of the people.
• Building an empire
– 1805, Napoleon ready to invade G.B. (Battle of
Trafalgar)
– He ordered all
European conquered nations to stop trade with Britain.
(Continental System)
• Led to the war of
1812. (Britain vs. the U.S.)
– By 1812, Napoleon controlled most of
Europe. (map page
353)
• Resentment of conquered nations led to
NATIONALISM
– self rule.

• Downfall of Empire
– Russia joined the movement against
Napoleon
– Napoleon and 600,000 soldiers march towards
Moscow. 1812
• Russia adopted a
“scorched earth policy.”
• Napoleon defeated

• March 1814, Napoleon forced to surrender in Paris, and abdicate as emperor by his allies.
• Reigned again in 1815, but
Europe feared his leadership and met Napoleon at Waterloo in the
Austrian Netherlands where he was defeated.
– Placed on house arrest on the island of Saint Helena in the
South Atlantic, he died in
1821.
• Legacy:
– Napoleonic Code
• spread ideas throughout
Europe
• equality before the law
• religious toleration
• advancement by merit.
• Promoted education
• reformed tax systems
• improved agriculture and industry.

• Get into pairs.
– If you do not have a partner, I will pick one for you.
• Answer questions on rough draft
• Begin coloring pictures, writing introduction, writing storybook.
• DUE Thursday.

RAP
NO RAP
Today:
Work on your story book.
HW: Read Ch. 11.4 and take additional notes on Napoleon.

• RAP
– IS the story book helping you to understand the
French Revolution better? Explain.
• Today:
– Work on Storybook
– HW: Ch. 11.5 Peace in Europe

Read and take notes. 

Peace in Europe: Ch. 11.5- pages 356-359
• Congress of Vienna, 1814
– Presided over by Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria.
– Three Principles: compensation, legitimacy, and balance of power.
• Compensation -all countries should be repaid for the expenses they incurred while fighting the French.
• Legitimacy -restore the royal families back to power.
• Balance of powerno country should ever again dominate continental
Europe.

•France was forced to give up its recently gained territory and to pay a large compensation to other countries for war damages.

• Delegates believed that divine-right monarchy was necessary for proper order.
• The Congress reestablished royal dynasties in France, Spain, Portugal,
Naples, Sardinia, and Sicily.
• Thirty nine independent German states formed the German Confederation.

• Most delegates did not want change and did not care for the spread of liberalism .
• They also wanted to crush the nationalism ideas that were spreading through Europe .
– People wanted a untied nation of their own based on their beliefs, etc.

Alliances
• Alliances were formed to prevent democratic revolutions.
– Quadruple Alliance included G.B, Russia,
Prussia, and Austria;
France was admitted 3 years later.
– Holy Alliance , based on “justice, Christian
Charity, and Peace,” created by Czar
Alexander I of Russia.
• Only two did not join this alliance: Pope Pius
VII and the British government.

Concert of Europe
• The two alliances encouraged
European nations to work together to preserve peace.
– Members decided to have regular meetings, known as the Concert of Europe.
• Resolve problems peaceably.
– Metternich used the system to achieve his own political goals: oppose liberalism and nationalism and to defend absolute monarchies —the Metternich system.
• Liberals in Germany and Spain demonstrated for liberal reforms and national unity.
– Spanish king was put back on the throne.
– G.B. opposed this and broke away from the alliance
– G.B. and France helped the Greeks get independence from Turkey.

• Open your textbook to page 360
• Watch Les Miserables
– X.C. compare this movie with the new release on Dec. 25. (Poster, Power Point, etc.)

Video—French Revolution

Calling the Estates Together
• Please read page 338, and stop at A Call to
Revolt
– What did the King hope for?
– What happened?
– What was the Tennis Court Oath?

A Call to Revolt
• What did the Third Estate call for?
• Why did they storm the Bastille?
• What was the Great Fear?