FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENT GALLERY BY PATRICK R ABSOLUTE

FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENT GALLERY BY PATRICK R

ABSOLUTE GOVERNMENT Absolute monarchy in France slowly emerged in the 16 th century and became firmly established during the 17 th century. Absolute monarchy is a variation of the governmental form of monarchy in which all governmental power and responsibility emanates from and is centered in the monarch. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy_in_ France

INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT The French taxation system at the time managed to be unfair, incompetent and corrupt. Many of the problems arose from the stability of the French political system over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Louis XIV reigned for 72 years https: //gflorencescott. wordpress. com/tag/government-corruption-and-the-frenchrevolution/

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS While the king and queen of France lived in luxury and splendor at the magnificent palace of Versailles outside of Paris, the government of France, was bankrupt and was facing serious financial crisis. http: //www. historywiz. com/financialcrisis. htm

THREE ESTATES A common depiction of the Third Estate, carrying the burden of the other Estates http: //alphahistory. com/frenchrevolution/third-estate/

ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSIPHERS The philosophes were instrumental in shaping revolutionary ideas http: //alphahistory. com/frenchrevolution/philosophes/

AMERICAN REVOLUTION The British (left) surrender to French (left) and American (right) troops, at the battle of Yorktown in 1781 https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Re volutionary_War.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND TENNIS COURT OATH On 20 June 1789, the members of the French estates- general for the third estate, who had begun to call themselves the national assembly, took the tennis court oath. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath

FALL OF BASTILLE A mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris and demanded from the guards to hand over the arms and ammunition that were stored there. http: //www. emersonkent. com/wars_and_battles_in_history/french_revolution. htm

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE CITIZEN The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is a fundamental document of the french revolution and in the history of human rights https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Ma n_and_of_the_Citizen

MARCH ON VERSAILLES On October 4, 1789, a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from the rain. They demanded to see "the Baker, " "the Baker's wife, " and "the Baker's boy". The King agreed to meet with some of the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd. http: //www. historywiz. com/womensmarch. htm

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REFORMS During the French revolution, the national assembly, which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the third estate. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/National_Assembly_(French_Revolution)

LOUIS AND FAMILY ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE The king's flight was traumatic for France. The realization that the king had effectually repudiated the revolutionary reforms made to that point came as a shock to people who until then had seen him as a fundamentally decent king who governed as a manifestation of God's will. They felt betrayed. Republicanism burst out of the coffeehouses and became the dominant ideal of revolutionary leaders. https: //www. boundless. com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/the-french-revolution 1137/constitutional-monarchy-1158/louis-xvi-and-marie-antoinette-s-attempts-to-escape-1162 -

FRANCE AT WAR WITH AUSTRIA AND THE OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 1792 until 1802, resulting from the French revolution https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars

EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI The execution of Louis XVI, by guillotine, took place on january 21 st 1793 at the place de la revolution https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI

ASSASINATION OF MARAT Marat was one of the leaders of the montagnards, the radical faction ascendant in french politics during the reign of terror until thermidorian reaction. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat

REIGN OF TERROR Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16, 594 official death sentences in France, of which 2, 639 were in Paris. [2][4] But the total number of deaths in France was much higher, owning to death in imprisonment, suicide and casualties in foreign and civil war. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

EXECUTION OF ROBESPIERRE As a member of the estates general, the constituent assembly and the jacobin club, robespierre was an outspoken advocate for the poor and the democratic institutions https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre

DIRECTORY Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. https: //www. britannica. com/topic/Directory-French-history

REPUBLIC ESTABLISHED Following the aftermaths of the Revolution of 1789 and the abolishment of the monarchy, the First Republic of France is established on September 22 of 1792 http: //library. brown. edu/cds/paris/chronology 1. html

NEW INSTITUTIONS schools may have operated continuously from the later empire to the early middle ages in some towns in southern France. The school system was modernized during the French Revolution, but rough in 19 th and early 19 th century debates ranged on the role of religion. https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/History_of_education_in_France

CONCEPT OF WAR The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 1792 until 1802, resulting from the french revolution, they pitted the french first republic against britan, austria and several other monarchies.

CONDITIONS OF THE PEASANTS the peasants who had long been under the stern hand of an unkind system were emboldened by the maneuverings in Paris and created a widespread uprising that pushed the French Revolution into a new phase. https: //mwsasse. com/tag/peasants-in-frenchrevolution/

CHURCH n 1789, the year of the outbreak of the French Revolution, Catholicism was the official religion of the French state. The French Catholic Church, known as the Gallican Church, recognised the authority of the pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church but had negotiated certain liberties that privileged the authority of the French monarch, giving it a distinct national identity characterised by considerable autonomy. France’s population of 28 million was almost entirely Catholic, with full membership of the state denied to Protestant and Jewish minorities http: //www. historytoday. com/gemma-betros/french-revolution-and-catholic-church

BOURGEOISIE/MIDDLE CLASS The Bourgeois, his Wife and Child; after Dupin's costumes. Rise of the French middle class. Pre- French revolution. Increase in economic prosperity and aspiration to live and dress like the nobility. http: //www. alamy. com/stock-photo-the-bourgeois-his-wifeand-child-after-dupins-costumes-rise-of-the 83334841. html

INFLUENCE ON OTHER COUNTRIES The french revolution obviously had a major impact on Europe and the New World. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events inhuman history https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Influence_of_the_French_Revolut ion