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Abbé Sieyes

A catholic priest who wrote what is the third estate? In 1789, which argued that the common people of the third estate, who did most of the work and paid most of the taxes constituted the true nation.

Wrote a book. Catholic.........

Napoleonic Code

French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principals of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth

Traditional interpretations of the origins of the FR

Growing tensions between the nobility and the comfortable members of the 3rd estate

Tensions.....

Impact of the 7 years war on conflict between monarch and parliament

Doubled the British national debt.

Louis XV sacred authority

"The magistrates are my officers" appoints, Rene de maupeou

Britain's tax policy in 1760s

Debt from 7 years war doubled Britain's debt, taxed America.

French debt v. British debt v. Holland's debt

France 50% went to pay down debt England + Holland had larger debt relative to their population.

National Assembly's laws

1789-1791 constitution of the realm

Abolition of slavery in saint Dominique

"Code noir" recscined in 1760s (resulted in discriminatory laws)


Vincent Ogel lead a revolution + national assembly granted rights



Slaves practiced voodoo, revolted + April 4, 1792 national assembly issued decree of enfranchisement

9 Thermidor

July 4, 1794- radicals shouted down Robespierre at national convention . the next day he went to guillotine

Napoleons background

Born in Corsica to poor noble family, was lieutenant in French Army, then in the Revolution, commander in the Army

Girondists v. The Mountain

Girondists- moderate group that fought for control of French national convention in 1793


Mountain- led by Robespierre, the FR radical faction which seized legislative power in a 1793

The national Assembly's radical turn in 1789

The third estate refused the old one vote per state.

The concordat

1801 signed by napoleon + pope Pius VII - the right of catholics to practice freely and priests helped instill patriotism.

Napoleons political system

March 1804 - Napoleonic code - equality of all male citizens before the law and absolute security of wealth and private property. Centralized state.

Toussant L' Ouverture

Independent ruler of western st. Dominique, freed slaves of African descent. Re established plantations. Harsh to former slaves.

Continental system

Blockade by napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, weakening British economy and military.

Olympe de Gouges

Self taught writer. Woman of the peoples, published "declaration of rights of woman" in 1791

Storming of the Bastille

1789 - bread prices ↑ unemployment July 13, Bastille stormed for weapons


Lafayette named new commander

Post great fear and the national assembly

Declaration of rights of man

The royal family's return to paris

After women's march on paris, the king moved closer to Paris to calm the disorder

National Assembly reforms

Aug 27, 1789 Declaration of Rights of Man spirit of enlightenment to laws sold church property to presents to settle national debt

Changing reactions to the FR by kings and nobles

first welcomed revolution then felt threatened

Delegates of the 1791 Legislative Assembly

younger less cautious than their predecessors and waged a war against tyranny

Mixed message of the French Army

They liberated and plundered looked like invaders

Goal Committee for public safety

April 1793 deal with threats from within and outside France

1780 French national budget

50% interest payments on dead 25% maintain military 6% used by King less than 20% available for the rest transportation etc

Groups within the pre French Revolution third estate

Clergy nobility and commoners

July 1794 and the war with the first coalition

What did the reign of terror with Robespierre

The third estates elected representatives

Lawyers government officials and a few representing business or the poor

Jacobins and womens political activities

Men and women who met to discuss burning political questions of the day