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Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVi. Thursday Oct. 3. We’ve learned about Louis… Now let’s get to Marie!. Louis 16 th married Marie Antoinette in 1770 (latter half of the 18 th century) She was a member of the Austrian royal family - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MARIE ANTOINETTE AND KING LOUIS XVIThursday Oct. 3
We’ve learned about Louis… Now let’s get to Marie!
Louis 16th married Marie Antoinette in 1770 (latter half of the 18th century)
She was a member of the Austrian royal family Austria was an enemy of France… so
people didn’t like her from the start! She was very out of touch with the
realities of life in France She lived an extravagant lifestyle in
Versailles and never really knew what life was like for peasants
Marie Antoinette She helped to select government ministers
without knowing the responsibilities of their area of government
She would ‘fire’/dismiss people she simply didn’t like
Neither Marie or Louis wanted to curtail their spending! …. But they didn’t really agree on howTo run France
A REVOLUTION BEGINS!Thursday Oct.3
France in Crisis Remembering what you have learned so
far… What was happening in France that needed
to be changed?
France in Crisis Remembering what you have
learned so far… People were starving to death People couldn’t feed their kids (over
40,000 kids were abandoned each year!) The poorest people were paying the
most taxes, this money went to support the king and did not help the people
Louis had spend a lot of money
France in Crisis Monarchy was completely out of touch with
the plight of the people France was still a feudal country There were a series of famines in the 1780s The Industrial Revolution had begun in
Britain and was putting many French people out of work The assembly line, machines to replace
people
Murmurs of Change The philosophes and other French people
openly expressed their displeasure with the government (sometimes they rioted!)
Recall: What was a ‘salon’?
The royal court splits in 2! The royal court split into two groups
One that supported the King and changes to the economy Louis didn’t want to stop spending, but was ok
with taxing more people, like the nobles (eventually)
Another that supported Marie Antoinette and more power for the nobles Marie didn’t want to change a thing in the
economy, and thought nobles should get MORE
What did the middle class want? Democracy!
They wanted what they saw in England
Many French officers had gone to the US in the American Revolution and came back with democratic views too
Extreme responses While some people spoke openly, some
protested, others reacted in an extreme way
The “Paris Mob” a group of radical protesters was violent and unpredictable … later we will learn how they resulted in
the Reign of Terror Crowds rioted in Paris against the high
price of bread (a main food staple)
THE ESTATES GENERALThe King’s hope to find a solution to France’s problems
The Estates General First estate: Clergy Second estate: Aristocrats Third Estate: The middle class…. But they never
really met to come up with a solution Therefore the privileged people had the most voting
power Louis called the Estates General when his
government was in a serious crisis He allowed them to have a say in the tax system… But members would not “bow” to the king’s wishes
Read pages 75- 76 Questions: (In your own words)1. Explain what the fall of the Bastille was
and why you think that this may have frightened Louis.
2. What were the reasons for the “Great Fear”?
3. What extraordinary changes happened as a result of unrest in the country? (get points from all the sections)
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE CITIZENSetting out basic human rights that governments cannot overlook!
p. 76-77, 78: QUESTIONS Read about the Declaration of the rights
of man and the citizen What was it? How did it come about? What is the significance of this document?
Read page 78: Compare the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen with the English Bill of Rights. Are they similar? In what ways? (show your evidence!)