Social review

• These are radicals who wanted to establish a republic without a monarch.
• - had the popular votes and stormed the royal palace in 1792 and relieved the king of his duties. Making France a republic. 
• - now France is known as the national convection

• - basically some people supported the monarchy and did not approve of the radicals point of view. Thus, this commitee was created to arrest  any enemies of the state and excuted approxiametly 40, 000 people. 
• - it was a dictatorship. 
• -  time period = 1793-1799

• girondins = support monarchy 
• Jacobins = dont support monarchy

- Maximillen Rosbespierre. He was famaoulsy known for his out right decleration for the death of king Louis  16th who dies at the beginning of the reign of terror along with his wife in 1793

• - time period = 1789 
• - bread prices are high. and we have bad weather= peasents starving. 
• - Rumor that Marie Antoinette said " let them eat cake". in reponse to the stravation of the peasents. 
• -  this angers the peasents( women) storming the palace of Versilllies to force the royal familiy to move back to paris since they had plans to flee france.

• - basically in 1790, the national republic now has some powerr and influence. 
• - Declare the first constitional monarchy and a sovergin  nation state. 
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• - stripped the clergy of theri special rights and property. 
• - granted the same civil rights to all citizens. 
• - Eliminated the nobility as a legally defined class.

• - monarchy rules a society with absolute power. ( itsnot elected and cannot be removed from power) 
• - the only person the monarchy was respensible to in France was God. 
• - It could also be known as feudalism

• - fetaured three classes of people. Also knwon as the rulign system 
• Third estate= serfs/ peasents, merchants, workers 
• Second estate = land owners, nobility, lords 
• First esate =  The roman catholic clergy
•  The only perosn above the monarchy was teh King becaue he spoke to God

• - This is a community of all the representatives of the three states taht came together due to the failure of the estate general meeting. 
• - King Loussi 16 the was not impressed and locked them out of their room out of spite

- Basically after Louis 16th lockced out the newly constructed national assembly. They decided to gather on a neraby tennis court to swear that they will not disband until france had a constituion.

- This is what France's democractic government became known as after they declared to become a republic.

• - stated that all men were equal before the law. 
• - guranteed freedom of religion and freedom to work any occupation. 
• - placed the interests of the state infront / ahead of the interests of individuals. 
• - One of Napoleon's greastest achivemnets and influences france till this day

• - he is able to expand conquer various lands and is able to create for himself an empire from 1802 until 1812. 
• - anyways, he tries to attack Russia in 1812 but fails miserably and losses 400, 00 men. As well as ignites the beginning of his lossing train 
• - then he is defeated by germany in 1813 and is therefore removed as emperor and exiled from France but he decided he wants to come back again in 1815, but is defeated and exiled from france again  to die

• - it was a prison and seen as a royal symbol. 
• -  basically King lousi 16th refused to acknowledge the national assembly even with the members continung to gather to achive their new goal. That frustrated the king and led to hime stating some troops near paris and also resulted in rumors gong around that the king was going to attack the people. 
• -  Thus,  thsi was a spark for the people, and led to them storminf bastille to remove the prisioners and steal weapons. 
• - This was the first open act of violence against the king  and was seen as the beginning of the french Rev.

• - two weeks after the ambush on the prison, the national asseembly abolished the estates general and end feudalism in France. 
• - Also led to the construction of th decleration od rights of man and citizens 1789.