1789-1800+French+Revolutionary+Wars

Meghan

French Revolutionary Wars || -resentment of royal absolutism -3rd estate resentment toward advantages of 1st and 2nd estates -the rise of enlightenment ideas -financial crisis and exacerbating burden of system of taxation -famine--rise in prices of bread, especially || -1789: Tennis Court Oath--National Assembly came to power, drew up new constitution w/a Legislative Assembly; king eventually gave in and Assembly began reforming France -Storming of the Bastille -Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen -1792: Jacobins and sans-culottes replaced National Assembly w/National Convention (abolished monarchy) -1793: execution of the king -Reign of Terror: creation of Committee of Public Safety, Robespierre comes to power, 15,000 executed by guillotine -Thermidorean Reaction: period after Robespierre's rule, governmental restructuring--Constitution of 1795; Directory was formed -Napoleon Bonaparte comes to power--autocratic rule reestablished || -fuedalism was dead -social order contractual relations were consolidated by Code Napoleon -unified France and enhanced power of the national state -tore down the ancient structure of Europe -hastened the advent of nationalism -inaugurated the era of modern, total warfare || 3rd estate: this was a time of liberation and new equality never known before; new constitution and government enabled the members to put their ideas (and ideas from Enlightenment) into reality; form of republican democracy was their goal ||
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 * 1789-1799