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French Revolution & Napoleon

French Revolution & Napoleon. I. Causes of the French Revolution. I. Causes of the French Revolution. A. Political 1 . Absolutism 2. Corruption 3. Censorship 4. Lettres de Cachet 5. Increasingly unpopular government. Louis XVI Marie Antoinette.

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French Revolution & Napoleon

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  1. French Revolution & Napoleon I. Causes of the French Revolution

  2. I.Causes of the French Revolution A. Political 1. Absolutism 2. Corruption 3. Censorship 4. Lettres de Cachet 5. Increasingly unpopular government Louis XVI Marie Antoinette

  3. The Affair of the Necklace Diamond Necklace commissioned by Louis XV for his mistress Mdme.du Barry Jeanne de Saint-Remy de Valois Comtesse de Lamotte Cardinal de Rohan

  4. I. Causes of the French Revolution A. Political B. Social *Rigid Social Class Structure 1. 1st Estate 2. 2nd Estate 3. 3rd Estate The Three Estates

  5. I. Causes of the French Revolution A. Political B. Social C. Economic 1. Taxes ↑ a. Taille b. Gabelle c. Corvee d. Tithe 2. Crippling Debt Corvee

  6. I. Causes of the French Revolution A. Political B. Social C. Economic D. Intellectual 1. Enlightenment Ideas 2. Influence of the American Revolution Rousseau Voltaire

  7. II. The French Revolution A. Estates General ● Mirabeau, Abbe Sieyes Mirabeau Abbe Sieyes What the people want: 2) Representatives equal to the other two orders taken together • Genuine representatives • in the Estates General 3) Votes taken by head, not by orders What is the Third Estate? “What is the Third Estate?Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire? To be something.”

  8. II. The French Revolution A. Estates General ● Mirabeau, Abbe Sieyes 1. Convened at Versailles (May 5, 1789) 2. 3rd Estate → National Assembly (June 17, 1789) 3. Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789) Mirabeau Abbe Sieyes

  9. II. The French Revolution A. Estates General B. Moderate Beginnings • Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789) 2. Great Fear (July – August 1789) 3. Declaration of the Rights of Man (Aug. 27,1789) ●Lafayette The Bastille Lafayette

  10. II. The French Revolution B. Moderate Beginnings (cont.) 4. March to Versailles (Oct. 5, 1789) 5. Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July, 1790) 6. Flight to Varennes (June, 1791)

  11. II. The French Revolution B. Moderate Beginnings (cont.) 7. Declaration of Pillnitz (August, 1791) 8. Constitution of 1791 (Sept. 3, 1791) 9. France declares war on Austria (April, 1792) Leopold II Frederick William II

  12. II. The French Revolution C. Growing Radicalism ●Danton, Marat, Robespierre Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) Georges Danton (1759-1794) Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)

  13. The Assassination of MaratJuly 13, 1793 The Death of Marat (1793) Jacques-Louis David Charlotte Corday after the Murder of Marat (1861) Paul Jacques Aime Baudry

  14. II. The French Revolution C. Growing Radicalism ●Danton, Marat, Robespierre 1. War effort goes badly 2. Republican movement ● Girondists v. Mountain 3. September Massacres (September, 1792) ● San-culottes San-culottes

  15. II. The French Revolution 4. Execution of Louis XVI (January,1793) 5. Committee of Public Safety (April -June, 1793) 6. Reign of Terror (July, 1793-July, 1794) 7. Armies of France victorious (Spring, 1794) 8. Execution of Robespierre (July, 1794) Death of Louis XVI Robespierre

  16. II. The French Revolution D. Thermidorean Reaction (1794-1799) 1. Constitution of 1795 (3rd) a. Directory b. 2-house legislature 2. Discontent a. War continues b. Corruption c. Economic hardship d. Revival of royalist feeling

  17. II. The French Revolution D. Thermidorean Reaction (1794-1799) 1. Constitution of 1795 (3rd) 2. Discontent 3. Rise of Napoleon a. Tool of the Directory (1795) b. Coup d’ etat (1799) ●Consulate Napoleon as a young officer

  18. III. The Age of Napoleon A. Consolidation of Power ●Plebiscite 1. 1st Consul (1799) 2. Consul for Life (1802) 3. Emperor (1804) First Consul Napoleon Emperor Napoleon

  19. III. The Age of Napoleon B. Domestic reforms 1. Concordat of 1801 2. Code of Napoleon → a. Equality under the law b. Abolished serfdom c. Religious toleration 3. Merit system for civil service 4. Efficient tax system 5. Furtherance of Public Education

  20. III. The Age of Napoleon C. At war ● Expansionist policies 1. Grand Empire a. Holland, Spain, German states (excluding Austria & Prussia), Warsaw, Swiss republic, Italy b. Trafalgar (1805) c. Austerlitz (1805) Napoleon’s Empire

  21. III. The Age of Napoleon C. At war ● Expansionist policies 1. Grand Empire 2. Downfall-Continental System (1806) a. Peninsular War-Spain (1808-1814) b. Invasion of Russia (1812) ●Scorched-earth policy c. War of Liberation (1813) 1) Leipzig ●Battle of the Nations 2) Exile - Elba Guerrilla warfare in Spain Napoleon’s Retreat from Russia

  22. III. The Age of Napoleon C. At war ● Expansionist policies 1. Grand Empire 2. Downfall 3. The Hundred Days (1815) a. Waterloo b. Exile – St. Helena Duke of Wellington Field Marshal Blucher Napoleon musing at St. Helena

  23. IV. The Age of Metternich ● Contempt for revolutionary ideals A. Congress of Vienna (1815)→ 1. Leaders a. Metternich (Austria) b. Castlereagh/Wellington (Britain) c. Frederick William III (Prussia) d. Alexander I (Russia) e. Talleyrand (France) Prince Klemens von Metternich

  24. IV. The Age of Metternich ● Contempt for revolutionary ideals A. Congress of Vienna (1815) 1. Leaders 2. Settlements a. Principle of legitimacy b. Principle of compensation

  25. IV. The Age of Metternich ● Contempt for revolutionary ideals A. Congress of Vienna (1815) B. Quadruple Alliance ●Austria, Prussia, Russia, Britain 1. Support Vienna settlements 2. Suppress revolutions

  26. IV. The Age of Metternich ● Contempt for revolutionary ideals A. Congress of Vienna (1815) B. Quadruple Alliance C. Revolutions of 1848 ●France, Austria, Germany, Italy Berlin, March 1848

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