Chapter 6, Section 2

Marie Antoinette

Austrian born, queen, daughter of Maria Theresa. Sister to Joseph II of Austria, wife of Louis XVI

Aug, 1791

Declaration of Pilnitz was issued

Tricolor

Flag of France

Declaration of Pilnitz

Issued by the emperors of Prussia and Austria, threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy

What type of gov't did the Constitution of 1791 create in France?

Limited constitutional monarchy

June, 1791

Louis and Marie try to escape France, fails

What & when were the 3 phases of the French Revolution?

National assembly, France becomes a constitutional monarchy (1789-1791), radical phase, Reign of terror and end monarchy (1792-1794), Age of Napoleon (1799-1815)

Which city was the "revolutionary center"? Why?

Paris, it was the capital and chief city of France

Refer to pg. 222, read Article 6: which Enlightened philosopher's ideas is reflected there?

Says all citizens are equal under the law and have the right to participate in gov't. Marked a significant change for most French citizens who were not previously treated equally under law, John Locke

Oct. 5 1789

Women march on Versailles

Olympe de Gouges

a journalist, demanded equal rights for women in her Declaration of the rights of Woman and the Female citizen.

Jacobins

a revolutionary radical political club

The Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen

announced that all men were born and remain free and equal in rights, issued by the National Assembly; modeled on the American Declaration of Independence

Marquis de Lafayette

aristocratic "hero of two words" who fought alongside George Washington in the American revolution, head of the National Guard

Faction

dissenting groups of people, competed to get power

Republic

government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch

Girondins

moderate French political faction in the National Assembly

Oct. 1791

newly elected Legislative Assembly took office

Émigré

nobles, clergy, and others who had fled France for political reasons

What was the "French Plague"?

spread of the French Revolution or ideas of the Enlightenment

The Great Fear

started by fear and famine, rumors that created chaos. Showed the peasant's anger with unjust

Aug 4 1789

the National Assembly voted to end their own privileges

The action taken by the Assembly against the Catholic Church was very similar to what law passed by Henry VIII in England?

the act of Supremacy

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"

the enduring slogan of the French revolution

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

the national assembly put the French Catholic Church under state control, issued in 1790

Refer to pg. 220 & answer the 2 questions under Analyzing Political Cartoons

they didn't want a revolution to happen, didn't want to lose privileges and power and the rats are the plague driving away the people, tails formed guillotines

April 1792

war of words between French revolutionaries and European monarchs moved onto the battlefield. Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia

Why does your book suggest that nobles had not given up anything they hadn't already lost when they agreed to give up their privileges?

without their privileges they have nothing, by refusing, nobles faced violence and could lose their lives

Sans-culotte

working class men and women, wore trousers due to their work