french revolution

• when was bastille attacked?

  14 july 1789
• how many people gathered infront of bastille?

  7000
• when and who ascended the throne of france?

  louis VXI in 1774
• who was louis XVI married to?

  Marie Antoinette
• how many prisoners were there in bastille?

  7
• france helped thirteen american colonies to gain independence from Britain.
• in the america war how much dept did france gain?


  a billion livres, now total 2 billion livres
• French society in the eighteenth century was divided into three estates, and only members of the third estate paid taxes.
• The society of estates was part of the feudal system that dated back to the middle ages.
• The term Old Regime is usually used to describe the society and institutions of France before 1789
• Peasants made up about 90 per cent of the population.
• 60 per cent of the land was owned by nobles, the Church and other richer members of the third estate.
• Tithe ñ A tax levied by the church, comprising one-tenth of the agricultural produce
• Taille ñ Tax to be paid directly to the state
• The population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789
• middle class earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade and from the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles
• john locke wrote the Two treatises of government
• in his two treatises of government, locke sought to refuse the doctrine of divine and absolute right of the monarch
• Jean jacques rousseau wrote the social contract
• proposing a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives. In
• montesquiue wrote The spirit of the laws
• in spirit of the law, montesquiue proposed division of power within the government between executive, legislative and judiciary
• Last meeting of estate generals was in 1614
• on may 5 1789 louis XVI called an assembly of the estate generals
• in the assembly, there were 300 people from first and second estate and 600 from third estate
• On june 20 1789 the national assembly was formed
• The national assembly was led by Abbe sieyes and Mirabeau
• Abbe sieyes was a priest
• abbe sieyes wrote the pamphlet "What is the third estate"

• On the night of 4 August 1789, the Assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations and taxes
• lands owned by the Church were confiscated. As a result, the government acquired assets worth at least 2 billion livres.
• The National Assembly completed the draft of the constitution in 1791.
• in 1791 france became a constitutional monarchy
• Rights such as the right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, equality before law, were established as ënatural and inalienableí rights
• the National Assembly voted in April 1792 to declare war against Prussia and Austria.
• France's national anthem Marseillaise was written by Roget de L'isle
• Marseillaise was sung for the first time by volunteers from Marseilles as they marched into Paris
• Maximilian robespierre was the leader of the Jacobins club
• A large group among the Jacobins decided to start wearing long striped trousers
• nobles wore knee-breechers