French Revolution

Significance

Character

Ideas: Fuzet and the liberals

Classes: Lefebvre and the marxists

Entropy: Schama and the conservatives

Origins

Ancien Regime the intendant system parlements

Louis XVI (1774-1792)    Bourbons      Absolutism

Three Estates Clergy, Nobility, Commoners (Bourgeoisie, Peasants, Artisans)

the taille and the corvee Bankruptcy  Estates General

Stage One (1789-1792) The Liberal Revolution

National Assembly (1789-1791)       Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789)

Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)      The Great Fear and August 4th

Declaration of the Rights of Man Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Flight to Varennes Constitution of 1791 Girondists Jacobins

War: Declaration of Pillnitz 1791, War of the First Coalition

Stage Two (1792-1794) The Radical Revolution

Tuilleries and September Massacres  Sans-culottes  Deposition of Louis XVI

National Convention The Mountain the enragées Execution of Louis XVI

Radical Reforms liberte, equalite, fraternite

Committee of Public Safety Reign of Terror

Marat Danton Robespierre

Vendee Revolt Levee en masse the Law of 22 Prairial

Stage Three (1794-1799) Thermidorean Reaction

Constitution of the Year III (1795)         The Directory (1795-99)

Stage Four (1799-1815) Napoleon Bonaparte

The Consulate Reforms Code Napoleon

Concordat of 1801

War: Victories Everywhere    (Confederation of the Rhine  1806)     Continental System

But...

Trafalgar (1805)       Peninsular War (1807-1814)        Invasion of Russia (1812)

Abdication 1814 to Elba 100 Days Waterloo

Congress of Vienna (1814-15)