Governments of France 1789-1799
Date
Form of Government
Dominant Faction/
Personality
May 1789
Estates-General
Louis XVI
June 1789
National Assembly
Third Estate
October 1791
Legislative Assembly
Girondins
September 1792
National Convention
Girondins and the Jacobins competed
for political power
April 1793
Convention forms Committee
of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre
July 1794
Convention reduces
Committee of Public Safety
(Robespierre executed)
August 1795
Directory
Executive: 5 Directors
2 house Legislative
1799
Consulate
Napoleon Bonaparte
*Use this Chart to organize all the governments between 1-15
*You need to know who was in control of each phase/government
and have an idea what happened during each government’s reign*
The French Revolution
WOD: Bourgeoisie:
What is the Old Regime?
Define each of the three estates. Did each estate receive any privileges? What was the social
makeup of each estate? What was the financial status of each estate? What percentage of
the population was each estate?
Make a LONG list of the challenges (or problems) that faced Louis XVI (16th) when he
came to power:
Political Spectrum:
RADICALS
LIBERALS
MODERATES
CONSERVATIVES
REACTIONARIES
-Most
________
change is
necessary to
fix the
problem
-Small
change is
_______
to fix the
problems
of a society
-On the
________
-agrees with
ideas of
conservatives
and liberals
-Keep things the
way they are
-NO change
necessary!!!
-fear the ______
of change
-_____________
conservatives
-see negatives of
change and want to
go back to the good
______________
French Revolution Timeline:
Ingredients for a Revolution: P E G
Causes: F R E A K
Directions: Watch the video on the French Revolution and answer as many questions as
possible. NOT all the questions will be answered in the video. Use section 1-3 of chapter 21
to answer the questions the video does not address.
Video #1: What does the video say about Louis XVI’s inexperience as a leader? How do you
think Louis XVI’s qualities as a leader led to the French Revolution?
Video # 2: What were some of the causes of the French Revolution that you saw in this first
segment?
Video # 3: What was the Enlightenment? Who were some of its’ major thinkers and writers?
Video # 4: Who was Maria Antoinette and why did people have such negative feelings toward
her?
Video # 5: Who is Jacques Necker?
1.) May 4, 1789- Estates General Meeting
Video # 6: What was the third estate so angry and frustrated about?
Video # 7: What did the third estate do as a reaction to being locked out of the meeting? What
did they declare themselves?
2.) Video # 8: What happened on July 14, 1789? What is the significance of this day?
3.) August 4, 1789- National Assembly ends all the privileges of the 1st and 2nd Estate
a. Feudalism comes to an end in France
b. End of Tithes- tax to the church
4.) August 26, 1789- Declaration of the Rights of Man
Video # 9: What did Declaration of the Rights of Man guarantee?
Video # 10: Who is Marat? What did his writings express?
Book # 1: Who was Olympe de Gouges and what was her objection to this new document?
5.) October 5, 1789- Women March on Versailles
Video # 11: Why did the women march on Versailles? What was their nickname?
Video # 12: Where is the King and Queen forced to go after the Women march on Versailles?
Book # 2: Who are émigrés?
6.) Book: Constitution of 1791- *Use text pg 514 to assist you with the next four
questions
#3 What was the makeup of this new constitution? How would the government look?
#4 Who voted for the legislative?
# 5What could the King no longer do?
# 6 What was the new legislative (law making body of government) called?
7.) 1791- Louis and his family try to escape
8.) Book # 7: (second to last paragraph on p 515) August 1791- What was the
Declaration of Pilnitz?
Video # 13: What is the new method of execution?
Who invented it?
What is its nickname?
9.) August 10, 1791- Monarchy is abolished
a. Legislative Assembly votes itself out of existence
10.)
April 1792- What happened? (bottom of p 515)
11.)
September 1792-Birth of the National Convention
Video # 14: What happened during the September day Massacres?
(only on the video-September 2-6th)
Book # 8: What is universal manhood suffrage? (pg 517)
Book # 9: List the three groups of delegates (or factions) that made up the National
Convention:
Book # 10: Who is Georges-Jacques Danton and Maximilien Robespierre?
Book # 11: What kind of government was the National Convention?
Video # 15: What happens to Marat? What is the significance of his painting?
12.)
Video # 16: January 21, 1793- ______________________ is brought to trial
and executed with the use of the guillotine.
Book # 12: (pg 518) What are the rest of the monarchs of Europe worried about and what
is their response?
Book # 13: What is conscription?
Book # 14: What is counterrevolutionary mean?
Video #17: What happens to Maria Antoinette?
13.)
September 1793-July 1794- THE REIGN OF TERROR
Video # 18: Approximately how many people were killed during the Reign of Terror?
Book # 15: What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Video # 19: How does Robespierre justify the Reign of Terror?
Video # 20: What is the Great Terror?
Video # 21: What happens to Danton?
Video # 22: How does Robespierre get out of control? What cult does he form?
Video # 23: What brings the Reign of Terror to an end?
Book # 16: What is the Republic of Virtue? What are some of the positive changes the
National Convention put into effect? (pg 520)
14.)
Book # 17: In 1795, what new government was created? (pg 521)
Book # 18: What was the makeup of this government?
Book # 19: How long did this government last for?
Book # 20: Why did it become extremely unpopular?
15.)
In 1799, a ______________________ was organized to overthrow the
Directory. Napoleon comes to power.
“ I found the crown of France lying on the ground, and I ________________________
____________________________________________” –Napoleon Bonaparte
The Napoleonic Era Begins!
Name:______________________________________ DATE:___________ MOD:__________
The French Revolution
Chapter 21