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• Get a laptop and log in. Open the French Revolution PowerPoint on my website. While it is loading. . . Begin the assignment below.

• Read Pgs. 166-168 in your text and explain the causes of the French Revolution.

The TricolourThe Tricolour

Colour of Paris

Colour of the Colour of the Bourbons(royal)Bourbons(royal)

Fraternity Equality Liberty

LIBERTY EQUALITY

Born equal

The Right to live

Free trade

Freedom of

worship

Ideas of EnlightenmentIdeas of Enlightenment 18th Century18th Century

The Right to elect

representativesto gov’t bodies

Ideas

The Enlightenment

Locke

Rousseau

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Ideas

Governmentby consent

of peopleA contract

between

gov’t &

people

If gov’t breakscontract

The right to rebel

LockeIdeas

Separation of Power

Legislative

Executive

Judicial

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Montesquieu

Ideas

Influence of the Enlightenment• It prepared the ground for change - a

revolution in the minds of the people

Government byDivine Right

Government byconsent of the people

1717th centuryth century 1818th centuryth century

Ideas

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Government Before the Revolution

• King Louis XVI was an absolute monarch.

Problems- Social, Economic, Political, Natural or Religious

• Absolute Monarchy - Rule by Divine Right• A weak king(Louis XVI) - indecisive,

influenced by others(Queen Marie Antoinette)• Little understanding of the condition of the

people• Empty treasury (too much spending, not

enough taxing of 1st and 2nd Estates)• Failure in wars and heavy cost of wars (Am.

Rev.)• Luxury of the court • System of unequal taxation Political

Discontents

97%The Third Estate:Common People

(the middle class[4%],the workers[8%],

the peasants[85%])

Social and Economic Discontents of the French Revolution

• Social inequality

The First Estate:The Clergy

The Second Estate:The Nobility

: Privileges & Restrictions

3%

Class Inequality

Social andEconomic

Discontents

From the diary of the English writer Arthur Young, on his travel through France, July 1789.

• “Walking up a long hill…. I was joined by a poor woman who complained of the times and that it was a sad country;… she said her husband had only a small amount of land, one cow and a poor little horse, yet they had……very heavy tailles, other taxes and dues. She had seven children, and …This woman, at no great distance might have been taken for 60 or 70, her figure was so bent and her face so … hardened by labour -

but she said she was only 28.”

1. To which social group did this ‘old’ woman belong?2. What kind of suffering was she complaining about?

The chained man represents the Third Estate. To which social group of that estate does he belong?

What clues does the cartoonist use to make the suggestion? What do the other three people represent? What helps you think so?

Do you think that the cartoon has reflected fully the problem of social inequality in France before the French revolution?

What problems are discussed in this clip?

Compare the lives of people portrayed in the slides.

How might they have contributed to revolution in France?

Who Might Have Written this Poem? Explain.

• "Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translateAnd canonise as Martyrs;The guillotine on Peers shall wait;And Knights shall hang in garters.Those Despots long have trod us down,And judges are their engines;Such wretched minions of a CrownDemand the People's vengeance!Today tis theirs. Tomorrow weShall don the Cap of Libertie!"

• Who is the intended audience of this poem?

• Which words show the emotion of the author?

What do you think is happening in this slide?Who are the participants?What sounds do you think you might hear if you were there?

What is this scene? Describe one character from the scene!

Names and characteristics of the people involved.

Louis XVI- Incompetent

General Lafayette- Military leaderJaque Necker- Financial Guru

Robespierre-Emotional Leader

There are video clipsBehind Louis and Robe

Dramatic Events- Actions or Violence

Tennis Court Oath

Assault on the Bastille

March on VersaillesEstates General Called

What is the humor in these comics?

New Governments Formed

• The 3rd Estate forms a National Assembly and asks the 1st and 2nd Estates to help them write a constitution.

• They form a representative government (but it doesn’t last long).

• Limited Monarchy- LouisXVI (he doesn’t last long).

Documents and Importance

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (gives French individual rights).

• Constitution of 1791- Forms a limited monarchy, a legislative branch ($, war), and protects property and trade.

Events Influence on Individual Liberty and Self-Government

• Influences- Men are equal before the law.

• All men born free have equal rights.

• Protection of liberty, property and security.

• Government exists to protect rights.

• Equal rights to holders of public office- based on talent rather than birth.

Similarities/Differences

• Watch a brief summary of the revolution. (picture)

• How is the French Revolution similar and different from the Glorious and American Revolutions?????