T HE F R E N C H

REV O L U T I O N
HOW IT ALL STARTED ?

IT ALL STARTED IN THE 17TH CENTURY AND FRANCE WAS ENTRUSTED TO THE FIFTEENTH KING BUT HE WAS
NOT WELL LIKED BY THE PEOPLE BECAUSE WHEN HE GOVERNED HE LOST WARS AND COLONIES, AND LOSING
THINGS IS LOSING MONEY AND BY LOSING MONEY THERE WAS NO FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF COURSE FOR
HIM YES THERE WAS BUT HIS KINGDOM ENDED IN 1774 WHEN HE DIED
WHAT I INHERIT FROM KING LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE

• SAVE XVI WAS THE KING OF FRANCE, LOUIS XVI, WHAT KING XVI INHERITED FROM XV WAS A HUNGRY
PEOPLE, BURDENED WITH TAXES AND WAR FAILURES, AT THAT TIME THERE WERE BAD HARVESTS, BUT
LOUIS DID NOT CARE BECAUSE HE HAD MARRIED WITH MARIE ANTOINETTE
 ILLUSTRATION

• SOME TIME LATER LOUIS AND MARIE ANTOINETTE HAD CHILDREN, BUT ALSO IN FRANCE THERE WAS A VERY POPULAR
MOVEMENT CALLED THE ILLUSTRATION AND BOURGEOIS WOMEN HELD MEETINGS IN THEIR HOMES TO TALK ABOUT
THE ILLUSTRATION, THE ILLUSTRATION SAID THAT IT WAS NECESSARY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS AND BE
EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, BUT ONLY THE UPPER CLASS HAD RIGHTS
 THE STATES

• IN FRANCE THE SOCIAL CLASSES WERE DIVIDED 3, THE FIRST STATE THE CLERGY (OR THE PEOPLE OF THE
CHURCHES) THEY HAD A LOT OF MONEY AND DID NOT PAY TAXES, THE SECOND STATE THAT WERE THE
NOBLES THEY ALSO HAD A LOT OF MONEY AND DID NOT PAY TAXES AND THE THIRD STATE THAT WAS THE
PEOPLE THEY HAD VERY LITTLE MONEY BUT THEY PAID A LOT OF TAXES AND TITHES, THE THIRD STATE
WAS DIVIDED INTO BOURGEOIS WHO WERE THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS
 THE CRISIS

• THE PEOPLE WERE GETTING HUNGRIER, BUT THE 16TH KING USED STATE MONEY TO SUPPORT THE
INDEPENDENCE OF THE 13 NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES FROM ENGLAND AND HAD MANY PARTIES AND
SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON THEM, BUT THE PEOPLE WERE ANGRY, AND THAT'S WHERE MAXIMILIEN STOOD
OUT. ROBESPIERRE WHO BEGAN TO WRITE AND SAY THAT THE KING WAS TO BLAME FOR THE POVERTY OF
THE PEOPLE
 THE ASSEMBLY

THE THIRD ESTATE WENT TO CHANGE THE NAME TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THEY STARTED TRYING
TO WRITE A CONSTITUTION FAST AND ROBERT PIERRE, MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY AND THE NOBILITY
JOINED THEM, THEN THE ASSEMBLY CAME BACK TO THE MEETING TO SHOW THEM THE CONSTITUTION THEY
WERE CREATING BUT THEY DIDN'T LET THEM PASS SO THEY LEFT BUT THE KING FOUND OUT WHAT
HAPPENED AND SAVES HE WAS AFRAID THAT THE PEOPLE WOULD REBEL
 PROTESTS

• BUT A VERY INTENSE PROTEST BROKE OUT IN PARIS AND THE PEOPLE ARMED THEMSELVES SO THE
PEOPLE STORMED THE ARMORIES TO HAVE WEAPONS AND THEY ALSO TOOK THE BASTILLE ON JULY 14,
1789, THEY HAD ALSO CREATED A NEW FLAG, AND THE ASSEMBLY BEGAN TO WRITE RIGHTS FOR ALL, BUT
THE KING REFUSED TO SIGN IT AND DID NOT WANT TO SIGN ANY OF THE REFORMS OF THE ASSEMBLY
• THE PEOPLE FOUND OUT THAT AT A PARTY THEY TRAMPLED ON THE FLAG THAT THEY HAD CREATED AND
THEY GOT ANGRY AND A BUNCH OF ARMED WOMEN WENT TO THE PALACE AND TOLD THE KING TO SIGN
EVERYTHING OR THEY WOULD HURT THEM AND THE KING HAD NO OTHER CHOICE AND THEY FORCED HIM
TO MOVE TO PARIS WITH HIS FAMILY
 THE KING'S ESCAPE ATTEMPT

• 1791 CAME AND NOW THE ASSEMBLY WAS IN CHARGE AND THE KING HAD TO SHARE HIS POWER, BUT THE KING WAS
TIRED AND DECIDED TO RUN AWAY, SO ONE NIGHT HE AND HIS FAMILY DECIDED TO RUN AWAY BUT THEY WERE
STOPPED AND THE PEOPLE WERE VERY ANGRY, AND THE THE ASSEMBLY PUT THE KING IN JAIL, TAKING AWAY HIS
POSITION AND IN THE PRISON THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED THE KING AND THE PEOPLE WERE AFRAID
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THAT THE PRISONERS WERE GOING TO SABOTAGE THE REVOLUTION SO THEY KILLED THEM
 THE NATIONAL CONVECTION

• THE ASSEMBLY CHANGED ITS NAME TO NATIONAL CONVENTION AND SAVE THEY HAD POWER, AND SAVE THERE WAS A
NEW CONSTITUTION AND IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT THEY GUILLOTINED YOU, THE NATIONAL CONVENTION HAD MANY
POLITICAL GROUPS BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT WERE THE GIRODINS WHO DIDN'T WANT TO KILL THE KING AND THE
JACOBINS THAT IF THEY WANTED TO KILL THE KING AND ALL THE CONVENTION DID NOT KNOW WHETHER TO EXECUTE
THE KING OR NOT BUT IN THE END THEY GUILLOTINED THE KING AND HIS WIFE
 THE REIGN OF TERROR

• THEY SUSPENDED THE CONSTITUTION AND RIGHTS, AND BEGAN TO GUILLOTINE PEOPLE FOR BEING
ENEMIES OF THE REVOLUTION, THUS BEGAN THE REIGN OF TERROR THAT LASTED FROM 1793 TO 1794 AND
MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE WERE MURDERED, THE GIRODINS WANTED TO STOP BUT THE JACOBINS DID
NOT, SO THEY EXECUTED THE GIRODINS AND NOW THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO ELIMINATE THE CHURCHES AND
EVERYTHING THAT HAD TO DO WITH IT
 THE GREAT TERROR

• ROBESPIERRE WANTED TO CREATE A FULL REPUBLIC AND A MORE HUMANIST FRANCE OF VIRTUE, SO HE
WANTED TO GUILLOTINE EVERYONE WHO DID NOT AGREE AND ROBESPIERRE CONTINUED GUILLOTINING
MORE PEOPLE, BUT THE DEPUTIES BELIEVED THAT ROBESPIERRE WAS CRAZY SO THE DEPUTIES
GUILLOTINED HIM
 THE END OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• AFTER ALL THAT, NOW THE DIRECTORY HAD THE POWER BUT THEY DID NOT DO WELL, DURING ALL THAT
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE HAD BEEN WINNING FIGHTS FOR FRANCE AND HE WAS WINNING, HE ALSO
STARTED MAKING AGREEMENTS WITH THE OTHER COUNTRIES WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE
DIRECTORY, BUT THEY DID NOTHING BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD FOR FRANCE, THE DIRECTORY WAS NO
LONGER POPULAR AND MORE CORRUPT, SO NAPOLEON STAGED A COUP ON NOVEMBER 9, 1799 AND
BECAME CONSUR OF FRANCE AND THUS ENDED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.