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Wednesday 2/8: Reign of Terror
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Problems in France
Legislative Assembly National
Convention
War and problems at home and abroad
Legislative Assembly forms National
Convention to rule without King
Forced by the people Legislative Assembly
gives up on Constitutional Monarchy and
removes the King/Queen from power
Creation of Political “Clubs” or parties
Jacobins: most radical
▪ Maximilien Robespierre
Girodins: rival to Jacobins
▪ Georges Danton
Maximilien Robespierre
Believed that he could
make a “Republic of
Virtue” based on the
ideas of the revolution
Lawyer who gains
power in the National
Convention with
Jacobins
National Convention
Louis XVI loses power as king and goes back
to family name of Louis Capet
Radical Jacobins try Louis for treason and find
him guilty and sentence him to death
Execution of Louis XVI
21 January 1793: Louis “Capet” executed by
guillotine
Guillotine
Reign of Terror
Coroner’s Report: The Guillotine
http://www.history.com/topics/louis-xvi/videos#guillotine
Executions during the
Reign of Terror
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is
clemency; to forgive them is barbarity. ”
Maximilien Robespierre, 1794
http://www.history.com/topics/reign-of-terror/videos#robespierre-and-the-reign-of-terror
Executions of those fighting against the
republic
More than 2,100 were executed in the last 132
days of the Reign of Terror
Most were in the 3rd Estate…
http://www.history.com/topics/louis-xvi/videos#coroners-report-guillotine
Executions during the
Reign of Terror
Rebellion and revolution in France
Wipe out every trace of France’s monarchy
and nobility
Committee of Public Safety
Robespierre becomes head of committee to
determine who would be enemies of the
republic
Most famous victim: Marie-Antoinette
Reading: How They Croaked—
”Marie Antoinette”
“Monsieur, I beg your pardon. I did not do it on
purpose.”
Reign of Terror
Anyone not as radical as Robespierre was
suspect
Thousands killed for trivial reasons
18,000 people killed in 1 year
85% were peasants or members of the urban
poor
End of the Terror
July 1794: the National Convention turns
against Robespierre
Robespierre goes to the guillotine
Timeline of French Revolution
1789-Estate-General
1789-1791-National Assembly
“Declaration of the Rights of Man”
Constitution of 1791
1791-1793-Legislative Assembly
1793-1794-National Convention
Constitutional Monarchy
Rule w/o King: 1st Republic of France
Committee of Public Safety: Reign of Terror
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military and political leader of
France and Emperor of the
French as Napoleon I, whose
actions shaped European politics
in the early 19th century.
Bonaparte rose to prominence
under the French First Republic
In 1799, he staged a coup d'état
and installed himself as First
Consul
five years later the French Senate
proclaimed him emperor.
Napoleon Children’s Book Project
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