| 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
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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
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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
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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)
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