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CHAPTER 19
The Age of the French Revolution,
1789-1815
The West
Encounters and Transformations
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
I. The First French Revolution
II. The French Republic, 1792-1799
III. Cultural Change in France During the Revolution
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
V. The Legacy of the French Revolution
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
I. The First French Revolution
Causes
Criticism
pamphlets
Nobles v. king
Economic Crisis
A. The Beginning of the Revolution
Louis XVI (1774-1792)
Assembly of Notables, 1787
Tax reform
King forced to call Estates General, 1788
(A. The Beginning of the Revolution)
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836)
joins Third Estate
Third Estate
calls itself National Assembly, May, 1789
locked out
Tennis Court Oath
Economic Crisis
Poor harvests, 1780's
1788, harvest fails
"National Guard" attacks Bastille, July, 1789
Estates General
Clergy
Nobility
Third Estate, 96%
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
I. The First French Revolution
B. Creation of a New Political Society
National Assembly
Privileges of clergy and nobles ended
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Rousseau's Social Contract, 1762
Church reorganized
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Legislative Assembly, 1791
end to nobility
Social reforms
civil marriage
slavery ended in France
C. Responses
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Pope Pius VI
condemns Rights of Man, Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
II. The French Republic, 1792-1799
A. The Establishment of the Republic, 1792
Jacobins
republicans
support of sans-culottes
Louis XVI and queen, flee, 1791
Frederick William II, Prussia (1786-1797)
and Leopold II, Austria (1790-1792)
Alliance to restore Louis XVI
Legislative Assembly
War on Austria, 1792
Defeated
National Convention
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B. The Jacobins and the Revolution
Feuillants v. Jacobins
Jacobins split
Girondins, Montagnards
Montagnards
Georges-Jacques Danton (1759-1794)
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)
Girondins
more conservative
Louis XVI
executed, 1793
First Coalition, 1793
Great Britain, Dutch, Prussia, Austria
Spain, Sardinia and Naples join later
France defeated
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
II. The French Republic, 1792-1799
C. The Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre
Jacobins
Joseph Fouché (1759-1820)
Paul Barras (1755-1829)
oppose Robespierre
executed, 1794
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
II. The French Republic, 1792-1799
D. The Directory, (1795-1799)
New Constitution, 1795
Directorate
Two legislative assemblies
Inflation
Battle of the Nile, 1798
French fleet destroyed
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Italian victories
Treaty of Campio Formio, 1797
Forms Consulate, 1799
New constitution, December, 1799
Napoleon, First Consul
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
III. Cultural Change in France During the Revolution
A. Cultural Institutions
III. Cultural Change in France During the Revolution
B. The Creation of a New Political Culture
Schools
lycées
Popular sovereignty
sans-culottes
Academies
Popular and Republican Society of the Arts
replaces Royal Academy, 1793
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Secularism
Joseph Fouché
churches closed
Cult of the Supreme Being
Libraries
National Library
replaces Royal Library
Calendar
September 22, 1792
Commission of the Museum
Louvre opens, 1793
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C. Cultural Centralization
Départments
Metric, decimal system
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
A. Napoleon's Rise to Power
Corsican
1802, Consul for life
1804, Emperor
B. Napoleon and the State
Continuation of the Revolution?
Pius VII (1800-1823)
Concordat, 1801
Church part of the state
Civil Code, 1804
(Napoleonic Code)
Emulation of Justinian
C. Administrative Centralization
Council of State
Prefects
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
D. The Empire and Europe
by 1809, control of Dutch Republic, Spain
Netherlands, Italy, parts of Germany, Poland
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
(D. The Empire and Europe)
Levée en masse, from 1793
1805, Third Coalition
Austria, Britain, Russia
Battle of Trafalgar
Jena, Auerstädt, 1806
Prussia defeated
E. The Downfall of Napoleon
1809, divorces Josephine
marries Marie-Louise
Russia
Grand Army, 1812
Borodino
Napoleon retreats
Battle of the Nations, Leipzig, 1813
Napoleon abdicates, 1814
Spain
invaded, 1807
Ferdinand forced from throne
Peninsular War (1803-1813)
Duke of Wellington
leads British invasion
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
F. After Napoleon
Bourbon Restoration
Treaty of Paris, 1814
Louis XVIII (1814-1824)
Constitutional Charter
Napoleon returns, 1815
Waterloo, defeated
exiled to St. Helena
Congress of Vienna
Prince Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859)
Austrian foreign minister
Balance of power
Dynastic principles
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Chapter 19: The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815
IV. The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
(F. After Napoleon)
Congress of Vienna
Prince Clemens von Metternich
(1773-1859)
Austrian foreign minister
Balance of power
Dynastic principles
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