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The National Assembly and War
BY DEMAND REVIEW: The First Part
of the French Revolution
 Key Points:
 1) The Estates General (Meeting that took place at
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Versailles)
2) Revolution propaganda: Abbe Sieyes (What is the
third Estate)
3) National Assembly (The 97%)
4) The Tennis Court Oath (Always & Forever)
5) Storming of the Bastille (Violence breaks out)
Fun fact of the day…
 In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, most French
citizens ate two pounds of bread each day. TWO
POUNDS = CARB LOAD
I want to talk about Women
involvement: The March on
Versailles
 After the estate general/storm
of bastille:
 The people were still hungry
 So on Oct 5, 1789, a group of
women began to protest
 They felt that the King was
oblivious to their reality (He
lived at Versailles)
 They decided to go to Versailles
and bring the King back to Paris
 As they marched, they were
joined by many others (7000 in
total)
 The Kings troops did not
stop them, in fact some of
them joined the protest
 Some of the women
attempted to kill Marie
Antoinette
 Louis agreed to go back to
Paris and live in the
Tuileries Palace to prevent
bloodshed
Why are these relevant?
What is it? Why did they want to
Break into it?
Who are the 97%?
Why are these relevant?
WHO?
WHY?
(Grievances)
Where we left off . . .
 The King had granted power to
the National Assembly after
the Bastille was stormed
 Hungry Women Flip out
 The life of the National
Assembly had been
saved/created by violence
 Problems linger in France:
 The root problem (starvation)
had not been addressed so the
people are still angry
This is not the end of the French
Revolution. In fact, it
Is only the beginning
National Assembly is in power
So What now? What do you think?
How do you think Europe Reacts? How about the starving people in France? How
About the nobility and clergy in France?
Most importantly, how does the National Assembly reform France? What can they do?
literally and figuratively
A person who has “migrated out”
The Flight of the Émigrés
 French Nobility/clergy migrate out of France
 Horrified by what they are seeing, Nobles from all
over France flee to sympathetic countries (Austria,
Russia and several German States)
 The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia
threaten war against France if the Louis is harmed
in any way
Why do you think they
Disliked the French
Revolution?
The National Assembly
 The National Assembly was very aggressive in Modernizing
France, they immediately started to reform the country
 Some examples of what they did:
- They created a constitution that…
 Abolished Feudalism and all Noble Privileges (peasants
were freed from seigneurial obligations such as paying
taxes, building towns)
Funny Enough…
What’s the difference?
Technology
Food
Middle Class
The French Revolution
Was at the right place, at
The right time
Phase 2: The declaration of the
Rights of Man
 Defined the Declaration of the Rights of Man
 Equivalent to the U.S Constitution (I plead the fifth)
 Statement of principle and hope that reflects ideas of the
Enlightenment
 What does it say:
 - Men are born and remain free and equal, no social
distinction
 -Rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to
oppression
 -Law of general will (of the many)
 Wow Mr. Alonzi, that’s so interesting.
 Please, tell me more…
The National Assembly & The Church
-Confiscated church property (priests
paid by state)and sold
- Priests are conflicted, forced to
swear loyalty to France not Rome
- Church is no longer KING
Finally;
- Military
 - Military forced were re-organized under committees
of Soldier and Sailors (prevented Louis from using the
Army)
 -Revised the Justice System (no imaginary crimes)
THESE ARE PRECAUTIONS
NO MORE ANCIEN REGIME
Who was a part of the National
Assembly?
 The Assembly was made up of 4 main groups
 On the right side of the hall sat the Feullants
(conservatives who still supported the monarchy)
 In the Middle sat the Marsh (moderates)
 On the Left side sat the Girodins and the Jacobins
MOST IMPORTANT
Girdodins and the Jacobins
 The Girodins were more liberal and wanted major
change within France
 The Jacobins were extremely Radical, they wanted to
completely remove the King and establish a republic.
They pushed for fast and sweeping changes
 Important to know that the:
 Jacobins were extremely popular with France's working
class
 So now we have a National Assembly that supposedly
represented the people, a constitution, the removal of
the church, angry European empires, a starving
nation, and a King who continues to pick locks
You won’t guess what comes next….
Seriously.. You won’t
War!, in their view:
 The National Assembly was in serious trouble
 They faced a starving population, a radical working class
that wanted even more rights and privileges, economic
disaster and threats from almost every major power in
Europe (threat invasion by the émigrés scares them)
 Yet they declare war on ALL of France’s enemies . . .
Practically all of Europe (including Prussia, Austria, Britain,
Russia)
 WHY?
 They wanted to take some of Austria’s wealth and spread
the ideals of the revolution
The war goes very badly, the Army is
disorganized without the leadership of the
nobility
 They are completely outnumbered at every turn
It’s important to know that the Girodins were in favor of the war and the Jacobins were
not
With So much unrest, what does
king Louis do…
Louis flight to Varennes
 Louis had lost control of his
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country
With no military support and at
the mercy of the Paris Mob,
Louis Decides to leave (after a
lot of indecisiveness)
He attempts to escape the
country in the night (disguised)
He is found and is forced to
return to Paris
Louis is now seen as a Traitor to
France by many revolutionaries
Where do you think he was trying to go?
What to do with the King?
 When the King returned to Paris he was attacked by the
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Paris mob
Again, the National assembly was forced to use violence to
save the king
They disband and a new National Convention was formed
(could operate freely without the King)
The National Convention was mostly run by Girodins and
Jacobins
The Girodins wished to protect the king
The Jacobins wanted to execute him as a traitor
A major power struggle ensues
 A) Kill him
 B) Send him away
 C) Leave him be
 D) Leave him be and feed him cake
 E) Just go to the next slide Alonzi
ILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY DID… AFTER
In fear of losing the war and the reversal of the revolution
caused the government to lose support, the Radical
Jacobins gained control of the government (Sans-Cullotes)
ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHO WERE THE SANS-CULLOTES?
-Radical left-wing partisans of the lower
classes; typically urban labourers, which
dominated France
-They supported the Jacobins
- SYMBOLIC GESTURE AGAINST les culottes
(silk knee-breeches) of the moderate
bourgeois
- The working class, sans-culottes,
traditionally wore pantalons (trousers)
More next class
SO WHAT HAPPENS TO LOUIS?
The Jacobins win and Louis and Marie are
executed
The Jacobins are now in total control
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