The renaissance analzye the influence of humanism on the visual arts in the italian renaissance

Assembly of Notables

Famine and drought

Cahiers de doleances

• Complaints

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

• Estates General (May 1789)

• Abbe Sieyes = What is the Third Estate

• Tennis Court Oath

• The Great Fear

• August 4th = Nobility abolished

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Men are free and equal
• Natural Rights are to be protected
• General Will
• Freedom of Speech and Religion
• Separation of Powers

March to Versailles

• March to Versailles

• Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)

• Secularized religion
• Monasteries abolished
• Church property used to pay debts
• Clergy to be elected and forbidden to accept authority of the Pope
• Refactory Clergy = Refused to accept it
• Divides France

• Metric System

• Le Chapelier law

• Outlawed strikes and unions

Assignats = $ backed by Church property

• Assignats = $ backed by Church property

• Flight to Varennes

• Louis XVI and family tried to escape
• Wanted to create a counter-revolutionary army

WOMEN

• Women Improvements

• Right to divorce
• Inherit property
• Child support

• Equality?

• Could not vote or hold office
• No belief in gender equality

• Olympe de Gouges

• Declaration of the Rights of Woman
• Wanted the same rights as men had

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Women’s Suffrage

• Women’s March to Versailles

• Jean Paul Marat
• Bread shortages
• Forced King, Queen and son to return to Paris

REVOLUTION AND EUROPE

• Edmund Burke

• Defended inherited privileges of monarchy and nobles
• Predicted anarchy and dictatorship
• Denounced the enlightenment political philosophy as abstract

• Thomas Paine

• Defended Enlightenment and French Revolution
• Saw triumph of liberty over despotism
• European Monarchs were now worried

• Declaration of Pillnitz

• Influenced by the emigres
• Prussia and Austria promised to restore the French monarchy
• Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria

War of the First Coalition

• War of the First Coalition

• Brunswick Manifesto

• Threat to destroy Paris if royal family is harmed

• Lazare Carnot = Levee en masse

• Nationalism (Liberty, Equality and Fraternity)

• Napoleon

• Battle of the Pyramids

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

• Replaces National Assembly 1791-92

• Jacobins dominate

• Girondins

• Paris Commune

• Revolutionary municipal government

• September Massacres

NATIONAL CONVENTION

• Jacobins

• The Mountain (Radical)
• The Girondins

• Sans-culottes

• Louis XVI executed

• The Mountain and sans-culottes oust the Girondins

• Marat stabbed

REIGN OF TERROR

• Committee of Public Safety

• Internal and external challenges

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Law of the Maximum

• Planned economy
• Lowered prices

• Law of Suspects

• Alleged enemies of revolution were tried

• Marie Antoinette

• Guillotine

• 40K executed
• 300K imprisoned

• No one was safe

Republic of Virtue

• Republic of Virtue

• Cult of the Supreme Being
• Deistic Religion
• Robespierre
• Temple of Reason
• New calendar

• Thermidorian Reaction

• Opposition to Robespierre
• Ended the Reign of Terror

THE DIRECTORY

• 5 member executive to govern France

• Bourgeoisie in control

• Reduced power of sans-culottes

• Conspiracy of Equals

• Gracchus Babeuf
• Wanted a dictatorial democracy with equality and no property rights

• Napoleon returns

• Coup d’Etat

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

• 1799 - 1815

ENLIGHTENED NAPOLEON

• Consulate Period = First Consul

• Napoleonic Code

• Equality before the law
• Freedom of religion
• Property rights
• Abolishment of serfdom
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