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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was an attempt to reform and regulate the Catholic church in France.
In July 1790, the National constituent Assembly issued the Civil Constitution of the clergy, which transformed the Roman catholic Church in France into a branch of the secluar state.
It provide for the election of pastors and bishops,
pastors and bishops were now salaried employees of the state.
It embittered relations between the French church and the state, a problem that has persisted to the present day.
The assembly ruled that all clergy must take an oath to support the civil Constitution.
The Assembly designated those clergy who had not taken the oath as “refractory” and removed them from their clerical functions.
February 1791 Pope Pius VI sentenced the civil constitution of the rights of Man and citizens.
French citizens were divided to supprted the constitutional priests and those followed the refractory clergy like royality.
Flight to Varennes
June 20 1791, louis and his immediate family, disgusied as servants and left paris. They travled to Varennes.
There the king was recognized and his flight was halted.
Soldiers escorted the royal faimly back to paris.
now the constitutional monarchy might not last long. Profound distrust now dominated the political scene.
Sans-culottes
.The lower middle classes and artisans of paris during the french revolution
The second revolultion had been the work of the people of paris known as the sans-culottes. Means “without breech”
They were shopkeepers, artisans, wage earners, and factor workers.
They were not benefited by the revolution, it made there lives even more burdensome. The national conatituent assembly had left them victems of unregulated economic liberty.
Their infulence was most important the sans culotte had gained their political experience in meeting of the Paris sections.
Jacobins
The radical republican party during the French Revolution that displaced the Girondins.
A club called jacobins.
they had also establised a network of local clubs throughout the provincess.
they drew their politcal language from the most radical though Rousseaus emphasis on equality, popular sovereignty, and civic virtue.
Maximilien Robespierre
.”Robespierre was either a tyrant or a servant of the people; a savior of the Revolution or the devil incarnate.
The Estates-General was divided into three parts. First Estate, clergy, Second Estate, Nobility, Third Estate, the commons. Robespierre served in the Third Estate. From the beginning he made his mark, speaking articulately over 500 times in the National Assembly in behalf of the lower classes, defending the rights of Jews, black slaves, actors, opposing the royal veto and religious discrimination.
Robespierre successfully argued for the King’s execution.
dominating the committee public safety, He considered terror essential for the success of the revolution.
virtue without terror is fatal.
Virtue: love of county and it’s laws
Terror: to put fear to have order.
Terror is powerless without viture
Girondists
.A group od jacobins known as the girondists assumed leadership of the assembly they were deterimined to oppose the forces of counterrevolution.
emigres to return or suffer the lo0ss of property
clergy to support the civil constitution or lose their state penions.
Girondists led the assembly to declare war on Austria.
The girondists belived the war would preserve the revolution from domestic enemies and bring the most advanced revolutionaries to power.
George Danton
was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton’s role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as “the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic.” A moderating influence on the Jacobins, he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror who accused him of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution.
Émigrés
French aristocrats who fled France during the revolution .
.People who left france France were called Emigres they settled in countries near the french border, where they sought to forment a countererrevoultion.
counter-revolutionaries
.The pope and devout Catholics, They were beheaded and people could not talk about.
Declaration of Pillnitz
August 27 1791, under pressure from the emigres Emperor Leopold II of austria and King frederick willia, II od Prussia issued the declaration of Pillnitz.
The declaration was to urge european powers to unite and preserve the monarchy if the other major european powers agreed.
It was taken seriously in france, becuase it would undo all that had been accomplided since 1789
September Massacres
.The September Massacres refer to murderous riots that erupted in Paris in the autumn of 1792. On September 2nd, gangs of armed sans culottes stormed the city’s prisons and killed between 1,100 and 1,400 prisoners.
Paris Commune
revoultion lastest 72 days
that briefly ruled Paris from 18 March (more formally from 26 March) to 28 May 1871. It has been variously described as either Anarchist or Socialist in tenor, depending on the ideology of the commenter.
The Commune put forward a radical social agenda that included separation of church and state, women’s suffrage, abolition of interest on debts, and worker self-management, among others. However, while they appealed to the workers, they were not able to broaden their appeal.
Committee for Public Safety
.defened the revoultion
Committee of Public Safety, French Comité De Salut Public, political body of the French Revolution that gained virtual dictatorial control over France during the Reign of Terror
defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies, as well as to oversee the new functions of the executive government. Members were elected and served for a period of one month.
(September 1793 to July 1794).
Guillotine
.An effective and “painless” way of excuting people. The people of france had morals that no one should suffer.
Antoine Louis a physiolgist made it.
Republic of Virtue
.In this republic civic virtue largely understood in terms of Rousseaus soical contract, the sacrifice of ones self and ones interest for the good of the republic would replace selfish aristocratic and monarchical corruption.
Renaming street names to non-royalty.
supported by Maximilien de robespierre
De-Christianization
.Republic of terror attemp to de-christianization france. They created a new calander
The cathedral was now known as the “temple of reason” where they reason.
killing preists and nuns.
levee en masse
The French revolutionary conscription of all males into the army and the harnessing of the economy for war production.
.The memeber of the committee of public safety in charge of the military began a mobilization for vitcory by issuing a Levee en masse, a military reqisition on the entire population, conscriping males into the army and directing economic production to military purposes
Law of Suspects
.A Law that if you were a suspect of being a counter reveultionary will be arrested.
and laws taht will idenficate you as a enemy of the state.
Thermidorian Reaction
This temerping of the revolution, called the _____ consisted of the destruction of the machinery of terror and the establishment of a new constitional regime. It resulted from a widespread feeling taht the revlution had become to radical. A fear that the sans culottes had become too powerful.
diminished the committee of public safety,
the paris commune was outlawed
A period
The Thermidorian Reaction was a liberal-conservative counter-revolution that followed the overthrow and execution of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794.
National Assembly
The third estate created national assembly It represented the common people of France (also called the Third Estate) and demanded that the king make economic reforms to insure that the people had food to eat.
Charles Alexadnre de Callone
Calonne recommended increasing the government’s revenue base by introducing a tax on all land, with no exemptions for the First or Second Estates.
Aware that this proposal would be rejected by the parlements, Calonne instead submitted it to a specially-convened Assembly of Notables. The Notables, however, also rejected it, believing that Calonne was either exaggerating the debt or was himself personally responsible for it.
His plans thwarted, Calonne resigned and went into self-imposed exile in England, which allowed him to survive the revolution. Calonne returned to his native France a month before his death in October 1802.
Tennis Court Oath
It was here that the third estate established
the National Assembly, the new revolutionary government, and pledged “not to
separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution
of the kingdom is established”
Estates General
The Estates General was the legislative body of France up until the French Revolution. The king would call a meeting of the Estates General when he wanted the advice on certain issues. The Estates General didn’t meet regularly and had no real power.
Political deadlock between the French monarchy
Louis XVI
He was a King of France he was convicted Louis of conspiring against tgh liberty of the people and the security of the state. He was beheaded