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FRENCH REVOLUTION
DOCUMENT GALLERY
BY PATRICK R
ABSOLUTE GOVERNMENT
Absolute monarchy in France slowly emerged in the 16th
century and became firmly established during the 17th
century. Absolute monarchy is a variation of the
governmental form of monarchy in which all governmental
power and responsibility emanates from and is centered in
the monarch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy_in_Fra
nce
INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT
The French taxation system at the time managed to be unfair, incompetent and corrupt. Many
of the problems arose from the stability of the French political system over the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, when Louis XIV reigned for 72 years
https://gflorencescott.wordpress.com/tag/government-corruption-and-the-french-revolution/
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
While the king and queen of France lived in luxury and splendor at the magnificent
palace of Versailles outside of Paris, the government of France, was bankrupt and was
facing serious financial crisis.
http://www.historywiz.com/financialcrisis.htm
THREE ESTATES
A common depiction of the Third Estate, carrying the burden of the other Estates
http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/third-estate/
ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSIPHERS
The philosophes were instrumental in shaping revolutionary ideas
http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/philosophes/
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The British (left) surrender to French (left) and American
(right) troops, at the battle of Yorktown in 1781
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Re
volutionary_War.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND TENNIS COURT OATH
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French estatesgeneral for the third estate, who had begun to call
themselves the national assembly, took the tennis court
oath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath
FALL OF BASTILLE
A mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris and demanded from the guards to hand
over the arms and ammunition that were stored there.
http://www.emersonkent.com/wars_and_battles_in_history/french_revolution.htm
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE
CITIZEN
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is a
fundamental document of the french revolution and in the history of
human rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_an
d_of_the_Citizen
MARCH ON VERSAILLES
On October 4, 1789, a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented
Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from the rain. They
demanded to see "the Baker," "the Baker's wife," and "the Baker's boy". The King agreed to meet with some of
the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd.
http://www.historywiz.com/womensmarch.htm
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REFORMS
During the French revolution, the national assembly, which existed from June 13,1789 to July 9, 1789,
was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the third estate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(French_Revolution)
LOUIS AND FAMILY ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
The king's flight was traumatic for France. The realization that the king had effectually repudiated the revolutionary
reforms made to that point came as a shock to people who until then had seen him as a fundamentally decent king who
governed as a manifestation of God's will. They felt betrayed. Republicanism burst out of the coffeehouses and became
the dominant ideal of revolutionary leaders.
https://www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/the-french-revolution1137/constitutional-monarchy-1158/louis-xvi-and-marie-antoinette-s-attempts-to-escape-1162-17738/images/the-
FRANCE AT WAR WITH AUSTRIA AND THE OTHER
EUROPEAN NATIONS
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting
from 1792 until 1802, resulting from the French revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars
EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by guillotine, took place on january 21st 1793 at the place de la revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI
ASSASINATION OF MARAT
Marat was one of the leaders of the montagnards, the radical faction ascendant in
french politics during the reign of terror until the thermidorian reaction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat
REIGN OF TERROR
Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of
which 2,639 were in Paris.[2][4] But the total number of deaths in France was much higher, owning to death
in imprisonment, suicide and casualties in foreign and civil war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
EXECUTION OF ROBESPIERRE
As a member of the estates general, the constituent assembly and the jacobin
club, robespierre was an outspoken advocate for the poor and the democratic
institutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
DIRECTORY
Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the
Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to
November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Directory-French-history
REPUBLIC ESTABLISHED
Following the aftermaths of the Revolution of 1789 and the
abolishment of the monarchy, the First Republic of France is
established on September 22 of 1792
http://library.brown.edu/cds/paris/chronology1.html
NEW INSTITUTIONS
schools may have operated continuously from the later empire to the early middle ages in some towns in
southern France. The school system was modernized during the French Revolution, but rough in 19th and
early 19th century debates ranged on the role of religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_France
CONCEPT OF WAR
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 1792 until 1802,
resulting from the french revolution, they pitted the french first republic against britan,austria and several
other monarchies.
CONDITIONS OF THE PEASANTS
the peasants who had long been under the stern hand
of an unkind system were emboldened by the
maneuverings in Paris and created a widespread
uprising that pushed the French Revolution into a new
phase.
https://mwsasse.com/tag/peasants-in-frenchrevolution/
CHURCH
n 1789, the year of the outbreak of the French Revolution, Catholicism was the official religion of the French
state. The French Catholic Church, known as the Gallican Church, recognised the authority of the pope as head
of the Roman Catholic Church but had negotiated certain liberties that privileged the authority of the French
monarch, giving it a distinct national identity characterised by considerable autonomy. France’s population of
28 million was almost entirely Catholic, with full membership of the state denied to Protestant and Jewish
minorities
http://www.historytoday.com/gemma-betros/french-revolution-and-catholic-church
BOURGEOISIE/MIDDLE CLASS
The Bourgeois, his Wife and Child; after Dupin's costumes. Rise
of the French middle class. Pre- French revolution. Increase in
economic prosperity and aspiration to live and dress like the
nobility.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-bourgeois-his-wife-andchild-after-dupins-costumes-rise-of-the-83334841.html
INFLUENCE ON OTHER COUNTRIES
The french revolution obviously had a major impact on Europe and
the New World. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of
the most important events inhuman history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_the_French_Revolution