The French Revolution

By:Rickylee Warnick

Justin SchultzWillie Postlewait

Louis’ Flight

• Although the king had tried to make the people happy he could do nothing for the food crisis, so in order not to be revolted against he tried to flee the country

• He was captured and put in prison to await further repercussions.

The Causes

• Movie on the Cause• French Financial Crisis

• It Begins

Key People in the Revolution

Louis XVIMarie-Antoinette

Charles de Calonne Maximilien Robespierre

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

Causes of the French Revolution

Attack on the Bastille

• The Bastille was attacked by the citizens of Paris in order to acquire weapons.

• This was not a major blow to the old French government, it was more of a symbolic threat to the old regime.

• This is also considered to be the beginning of the French Revolution.

“Let them eat cake!”

• As a show of the public’s hate towards the unrelenting government they killed their king by sentencing him to death on January 21, 1793 Louis XVI for treason.

• And within a few months on October 16 of the same year Marie-Antoinette is executed.

The End Of The Revolution

• Once in France Napoleon joined with a leader of the new French government to create a coup.

• He eventually overthrew the government and ruled it as a military dictator for 15 years, and during this time he officially declared the end of the Revolution.

Flat Broke French

• 1756–1783 France builds up enormous debt by participating in the Seven Years’ War and American Revolution, and due to this must raise taxes that anger the French people

• And even though the king tried his best to come up with debt relieving ideas, he eventually could not do anything about them.

Poor Louis

• After a march on Paris by France’s women who had been suffering under high prices and unfair feudal contracts which is the contract that bound them to the land they worked

• Louis enacted the August Decrees which released many of them from their responsibilities as serfs.

• Then through further civil unrest Louis XVI enacted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 26, 1789 which simply stated that every French man was equal.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• The end of the revolution did not take place until 1799, 12 years after it had started.

• It happened when Napoleon Bonaparte being backed by the new revolutionary government, resisted invasions by Prussia and Austria, he then attacked the surrounding countries in an attempt to regain some control in Europe

• He was threatened by a collaborated effort of Britain, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire when he occupied Egypt and he eventually fled his army to return to France

Works Cited

• Encyclopedia Britannica - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219315/French-Revolution

• SparkNotes - http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/

• CIA World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fr.html