Term | Definition |
Estates General | clergy, nobles, 95% of the population |
Tennis Court Oath | 1789Abbe Siyes, 3rd estate rejected method of voting. declared itself the National Assembly of France. took an oath not to disband until a drafted constitution was made |
Storming of the Bastille | protested the price of bread. stormed the bastille a fortress and prison |
Declaration of the Rights if Man and citizen | all men were born and remain free and equal in rights. included rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. Freedom of religion, speech, press, and petition the gov't |
Women's Rights | increased rights to inherit property and divorce, did not gain right to vote |
National Assembly 1789-1791 | GREAT FEAR. constitutional monarchy,m divided France 89 departments, metric system of measurement, abolish internal tarrifs, abolish guilds. DID NOT: abolish private property or give women suffrage rights |
Legislative Assembly 1791-1792 | KING ESCAPES FRANCE, FRANCE GOES TO WAR AGAINST EUROPE. Conservatives supported the King, Moderates, Radicals wanted revolution |
Jacobins | wanted to overthrow the monarh and create republic (Danton and Robespierre). |
Girondists | involve France in a war to discredit the monarchy and spread rev. ideas |
National Convention 1792-1795 | committii of public safety led to reign of terror |
Directory 1795-1799 | The White Terror, the death of Robsppiere |
Napoleon | values of enlightenment: all men created equally, rationalism, reason, perfect society, merit ideas, international unity, French Rev, universal monarch, neoclassical Roman republic values and styles |
Napoleon's domestic policy | 1801 Concordat with the Pope, Napoleonic code (codes of law, state supported education system), Merit system (relatives on conquered thrones), lowered taxes on farmers |
Napoleon's foreign policy | attempt at conquering Russia (lost military with scorched earth and cold winter) |
Failure of Napoleon | could not change society top down, the ppl turned against him, he became a hypocrite turned against own ideas and values, became an emperor |
Battle of Leipzig 1813 | Napoleon was defeated. Retired to the island of Elba. Louis 18th crowned king of France |
Battle of Waterloo | Napoleon imprisoned at island of st. Helena |
Concert of Europe | England, Russia, Prussia, France, and Austria |
Congress of Vienna | Metternich (Austria), Alexander I (Russia), Hardenburg (Prussia), Talleyrand (France) |
Hardenburg (Prussia) | "we are the victors" France was a problem, solution to split France between the victors |
Talleyrand (France) | ^ not good for the balance of power. need a strong France to balance the other nations against a universal monarchy |
Metternich (Austria) | peace, stablility, maintain independence. Balance of power: anti-Napoleon, universal monarch. Legitimacy: reverse to the 17th century |
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Fifth Republic | (De Gaulle) the fight or Algeria, with drawl of French military forces from NATO, nuclear weapons |