9-21 to 9-22 Monday Tue section 40

 Week 3 

9-21 to 9-22 Monday Tue  section 40 

The french revolution Reign of terror section 40 

The French Revolution: Crash Course European History #21

The Revolution Takes to the Streets of France.

Following the uprising by the third

estate, the people of Paris 

Stormed the Bastille; a military post. They

did so to get guns and protect

themselves from the king. No longer

trusting him, they feared he would

bring in foreign troops to crush the new

National Assembly. (He was gonna). Rioting Parisians killed several guards and

paraded their heads through the streets of Paris. Things were getting ugly.

In the late summer of 1789, the National Assembly signed the

 Declaration of the Rights of Man. These rights included freedom of speech, freedom of

religion and equal protection under the law. Later King Louis and his wife Marie

Antoinette were arrested and held captive in Paris while the National Assembly

scrambled to create some kind of functioning leadership.

Reign of Terror

It was at this time that a young

revolutionary, Maximilien

Robespierre rose to power as leader

of the Jacobin Club. This odd little crew of intellectuals

fed on chaos and fear among the French people. Robespierre himself was

energized by the call for violent overthrow of the monarchy. Soon, he and other

members of the Jacobin revolutionaries concluded that if the Revolution was to

live, the King must die.

In January of 1793, King Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette were convicted

of treason for attempting to overthrow the National Assembly. They were both

beheaded. The Execution of King Louis sparked frenzy among the people. The

Revolution was on! And woe to anyone even suspected of being against it! To

weed out any counter-revolutionaries, the Jacobins established the

 Committees of Public Safety: a paranoid group who pointed fingers at “enemies of the

revolution” charged them with treason and executed them. In two years, more

than 2,000 Frenchmen and women were executed by guillotine. Strangely

though, most of them were actually members of the third estate!

This French Revolution transformed French society. Church land was

confiscated and sold to pay off France’s national debt. The long tradition of

absolutist monarchy was ended. Men of France gained rights to property and

most important, the right to participate in government! By 1795, The National

Assembly carried on in endless argument and debates. The left wanted continual

change, the right wanted none.

LIST 3 FACTS FOR EACH 

Storming the Bastille

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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Reign of Terror

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Committees of Public Safety

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Maximilien Robespierre

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Storming the Bastille

Causes…

• Loius tried to make peace with the Third Estates by yielding the National Assembly’s demands. 

• Loius ordered the nobles and clergy to join the National Assembly but the king stationed his army in Paris.

• Rumors flew that the foreign troops were coming to massacre French citizens.

July 14th 1789…

• A mob tried to get gunpowder from the Bastille but the angry crowd overwhelmed the king’s soldiers and the Bastille fell into the control of the citizens.

• Storming the Bastille was the symbol of the French Revolution. It is known as a national holiday in France.