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Revolution Brings Reform and Terror
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Paris citizens feared
the King would
drive out the
National Assembly
by force.
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14 July 1789
The people of Paris
capture the Bastille.
Great Fear
July-August 1789
Peasants attack homes of nobles
October 1789 women riot over the
price of bread and demand that Louis
and Marie return to Paris!!!
I. The Rights of Man
• August 4, 1789 – nobles join the National
Assembly and make the common people of
France equal to the 1st and 2nd estate.
• What made the 1st and 2nd estate change
their minds?
• This joining of forces leads to the
• Declaration of Rights of Man
and of the Citizen.
Declaration of Rights of Man
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Declaration of the Rights
of Man and of the Citizen
• Men are born equal &
remain equal before the
law
• Freedom of speech, of
the press, of religion
• Right to take part in
gov’t
• Right to a fair trial
• Sound familiar?
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The Slogan of the
French Revolution ...
Liberty
Equality
Fraternity
Does the Declaration apply to
Women?
• Olympe de
Gouges- publishes
the Declaration of the
Rights of Women and
Citizens
• Her ideas are rejected
• Executed in 1793
II. StateControlled
Church
• Assembly takes over
Church property
• Priests were to be
elected and paid by
the state
• Church land sold to
pay off debt
• These actions towards
the Roman Catholic
Church offends many
of the peasants and
they refuse to join the
Revolution
III. Louis
Tries to
Escape
• June 1791- Louis and
his family tried to
escape to the Austrian
Netherlands.
• However, he is caught
and this further
enrages the
revolutionaries