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Flight to Varennes

Flight to Varennes. June 1791. Escape. Louis XVI tried to escape France in June 1791 He was trying to avoid approving the Constitution of 1791 Wanted to raise a counter revolutionary army Was captured and the King and Queen became prisoners. International Reaction. Edmund Burke.

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Flight to Varennes

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  1. Flight to Varennes June 1791

  2. Escape • Louis XVI tried to escape France in June 1791 • He was trying to avoid approving the Constitution of 1791 • Wanted to raise a counter revolutionary army • Was captured and the King and Queen became prisoners

  3. International Reaction

  4. Edmund Burke • 1729-1797 • Reflections on the Revolution in France • Defended inherited privileges • Predicted anarchy and dictatorship in France • Advised England to go slow in their own liberties • Believed nations should be shaped by circumstances, history, and character

  5. Thomas Paine • Rights of Man • Responded to Burke’s argument by defending Enlightenment principles and revolution • Nobles of Europe felt threatened

  6. Legislative Assembly 1791-1792

  7. New Gov’t • Member of the National Assembly had agreed not to take part in new gov’t • Members were younger and less cautious than members of the National Assembly

  8. Jacobins • Named after their political club, came to dominate the LA

  9. Girondins • A group of Jacobins that became the left or advanced party of the Revolution and in the LA and led the country into war

  10. War • War was main issue during the period of the LA • Declaration of Pillnitz • French nobles that fled, influenced Prussia and Austria to declare the restoration of the French monarchy as their goal • Leopold, Austrian Emperor misjudged the supporters of revolution, LA declared war on Austria in April 1792

  11. War of the First Coalition • French revolutionary forces were soundly defeated by the Austrian military • Only the conflict between eastern monarchs over the division of Poland saved France from defeat • Jacobins blamed their defeat on Louis XVI

  12. Brunswick Manifesto • Prussia and Austria threatened to destroy Paris if the royal family was harmed • August 10, 1792 • The king’s palace (Tuleries) was stormed and the King was taken prisoner • Began the “Second Revolution”

  13. Paris Commune

  14. Municipal Gov’t • Revolutionary municipal gov’t was set up in Paris • Led by Georges-Jacques Danton • The LA suspended the Constitution of 1791 • Wanted a new national gov’t (republican form)

  15. September Massacres • Led by Paris Commune • Rumors spread that imprisoned counter revolutionary aristocrats and priests were plotting with foreign invaders • Mobs slaughtered over a thousand priests, bourgeoisie, and aristocrats who opposed their government • Most of the revolution’s remaining foreign supporters were shocked by the violence

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