Nobles and officers of the church were equally afraid as peasants during the Great Fear
In the meeting they get rid of the privileges of the first and second estates
Slogan on the test
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Olympe de Gouges
Declaration Rights of Women
Church Reforms:
Peasants
(Mostly Catholic)
King Louis XVI tried leaving the country but is caught and returned to Paris
New Constitution creates Legislative assembly
Three sections:
Trousers
Emigres:
Nobles, who fled France, and want revolution undone
Sans-culottes:
wanted more revolution
Prussian says they’ll destroy Paris if royal family is hard. French throw royal family in jail
September Massacre:
Citizens storm prisons murder nobles, priests, and others
National Convention
Created after king is desposed
Women won…Nothing
It declared France a republic and abolished the monarchy
Jean-Paul Marat
Newspaper: L'Ami du peuple ("The People's friend")
Louis XVI
Guilty of treason
Battle of Valmy
France vs Prussians and Austrians
Resistance inside and Outside
Maximilian
Robespierre
Execution of any “enemies of the state”
George Danton
George Danton
Marie Antoinette
40,000 people killed mostly middle class / poor
1794, the National Convention are going to fear for their own safety and betray Robespierre. �
Inflation causes prices of bread, salt and other goods to increase
The Directory
put power in the hands of the upper middle class and called for a two house legislative along with an executive body of five men
Napoleon Bonaparte