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King of France r. (1774-1792)
Not popular with French people. Marie Antoinette is wife who says "let them eat cake". He faces severe debt and famine crisis in 1989. |
King Louis XVI
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The Seven Years War adn the American Revolution put France heavily in debt. Weak tax base, 3rd Estate paid almost all taxes. Ideas from the Englightenment.
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Long-term causes of the French Revolution
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Poor harvests; widespread famine and starvation.
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Short-term causes of the French Revolution
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This body is formed to resolve France's debt problem and create a new constitution in 1789.
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Estates General
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3rd Estates declares itself this along with some of 2nd and 1st Estates in June 1789.
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National Assembly
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National Assembly vows to create a constitutional monarchy after being locked out of the Estates General.
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Tennis Court Oath
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Beginning of the French Revoluiton when mobs are stirred to action in Paris after the Estates General is disbanded and the King threatens to send troops to Paris on July 14, 1789.
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Storming of the Bastille
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Peasant rise up against nobles, burn castles and eliminate all feudal privileges of the nobility after the Bastille is stormed.
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The Great Fear
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Englishman who predicts chaos for France while commententing on the French Revolution
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Edmund Burke
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Challenged Burke's ideas and argued for women's rights; she wrote the Declaration the Declaration for the Rights of Women.
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Mary Wollestonecraft
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August 1791; Prussia and Austria threaten to intervene if the monarchy is jeopardized; France declares war in 1792.
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Declaration of Pillnitz
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1792 Possible traitors to the revolution including the clergy and nobility are viciously attacked in Paris.
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September Massacres
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1792 Radicals take control of the National Assebly and rename it. France is proclaimed a Republic.
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National Convention
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Leader of the Mountain and represents the Sans-cullote, he opposes the Girondist
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Robespierre
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January 1793Mountain win enough votes to have this guy executed after he tries to flee France.
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Louis XVI
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