Stages of the French Revolution Stages of the

Stages of the French Revolution “First Revolution” (1789 -1791) • The “moderate liberal bourgeoisie”

Stages of the French Revolution “Radical Revolution” (1792 -1794) • 1792: National Convention, September

Stages of the French Revolution “Thermidorian Reaction” (1794 -1799) • 1794: July - Robespierre

The Political Spectrum TODAY: 1790 s: Montagnards The Plain (swing votes) Girondists (“The Mountain”)

What next? • Directory basically became an oligarchy of bourgeoisie who protected their own

Stages of the French Revolution Military Dictatorship (1799 -1815) • • 1799: Napoleon becomes

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Stages of the French Revolution

Stages of the French Revolution “First Revolution” (1789 -1791) • The “moderate liberal bourgeoisie” phase • 1789: National Assembly, the Tennis Court Oath, Storming the Bastille, the Great Fear, Declaration of the Rights of Man, women’s march to Versailles • 1790: Civil constitution of the Clergy • 1791: Legislative Assembly, constitutional monarchy created, royal family’s attempted escape, Austria and Prussia attack

Stages of the French Revolution “Radical Revolution” (1792 -1794) • 1792: National Convention, September massacres, Jacobin-Girondin struggle for power, continuing war with First and Second Coalitions, creation of republic • 1793: debut of the guillotine, Jacobins in charge, rise of sans-coulottes in Paris, king beheaded, Robespierre, planned economy, Reign of Terror, Marat killed, Marie Antoinette beheaded, de-Christianization • 1794: Committee of Public Safety, Danton beheaded, French armies victorious all around

Stages of the French Revolution “Thermidorian Reaction” (1794 -1799) • 1794: July - Robespierre killed, end of the Terror • 1795: New constitution written (again!) • 1795 -99: The Directory: executive group of five men who led a two house legislature composed mostly of propertied men • Directory – corrupt, bourgeois rule, renewed foreign wars, relied on military to keep it running

Moderat es Girondist Jacobins s

The Political Spectrum TODAY: 1790 s: Montagnards The Plain (swing votes) Girondists (“The Mountain”) Monarchíen (Royalists) Jacobins

What next? • Directory basically became an oligarchy of bourgeoisie who protected their own interests • Continual war and economic troubles • Lawlessness in the countryside • Directory used military force to put down insurrections from left and right • By 1799 people say “We want peace and stability!”

Stages of the French Revolution Military Dictatorship (1799 -1815) • • 1799: Napoleon becomes one of 3 “consuls” 1800: Napoleon becomes “First Consul” 1804: Napoleon proclaims himself emperor 1814: Defeated by Allied Coalition, exiled to Elba • 1815: Escapes from Elba, returns to France for the “Hundred Days”, defeated at Waterloo, exiled to St. Helena • 1815: Bourbon monarchy restored in France