Intellectuals and the burgueoisie supported Enlightenment ideas and wanted to put them into practice.
Crisis.
Political
Anotações:
Estates General with their representatives.
Clergy and nobility -
300 representatives - 1 vote.
Third state
600 representatives - 1 vote.
Louis XVI opposed meetings of the Estates General.
Social
Anotações:
The three estates of the realm were discontented.
Nobility and clergy refused to pay taxes.
Middle class - wanted more political participation.
Peasantry - suffered economic problems caused by wars, taxes and poor harvests.
Economic
Anotações:
Bankrupt because of military conflicts.
Also because the royal family spent a lot of money on goods for them.
So the solution was to increase taxes.
Major events.
National Assembly.
Anotações:
Cahiers de doleances
Main problem - voting system.
-financial problems
-social inequalities
-feudal rights
TENNIS COURT OATH.
Constituent Assembly.
Anotações:
Flight to Varennes (1791)
Riots in Bastille, Paris and later in the countryside.
Grand Peur.
Reforms abolished feudal rights, Declaration of the rights of the man and the citizen.
2nd constitution (1791) - constitutional monarchy, popular sovereignty, separation of powers and male suffrage.
Legislative Assembly.
Anotações:
Two groups
Girondins
Jacobins
Internal and external problems.
Convention
Anotações:
Two stages
Girondist Convention
Jacobin Convention
Directory and the Consulate.
Anotações:
Directory (1795-1799)
moderate middle class gained control of France.
more conservative - limited suffrage.
Constitution of year III.
Radicals wanted to gain control - Napoleón installed a coup d'etat.
After Napoleón installed a CONSULATE.
3 consuls
-Sieyes
-Bonaparte
-Ducos
1802 - first cónsul for life
1804 EMPEROR.