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• 5/17 Focus:5/17 Focus: – An extreme government changed
French society and tried through harsh means to eliminate its critics within France
• Do Now:Do Now:– Explain why other European monarchs
were concerned with events in France during the revolution.
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• French constitution created a limited monarchy
• Legislative Assembly made laws
• Assembly split into different factions
• Conservatives• Moderates • Radicals
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• Radicals took over the Assembly – Known as Jacobins
• Led by Maximilien Robespierre
• Jean- Paul Marat • Georges- Jacques
Danton– Ended the monarchy
• Execution of King Louis XVI
– Declared the formation of a republic
– Suspended the Constitution
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• Radicals attempted to reform French Society – Eliminate influence of
religion • Closed churches in Paris • Created the Cult for the
Supreme Being – Worshipped Revolutionary
ideals
– Eliminate references to the monarchy and nobility
– Created new calendar– New systems of weights
and measurement
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• The Republic faced many challenges – War with other European nations
• The First coalition – Austria, Prussia, Spain, Great Britain
• France suffered a number of defeats
– Continuing economic issues– Resistance from people inside France
• Not everyone supported killing the king • Many priests would not accept gov’t control• Many peasants were angry about a military draft
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• Radicals created the Committee of Public Safety – Find and eliminate
people who threatened the revolution inside France• Use of terror to
defend the republic
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• Radicals placed anyone suspected of not supporting the revolution on trial– Sentenced
people to death by guillotine
– Over 40,000 people killed
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• Robespierre began using the committee to eliminate other radicals that were his rivals – Georges- Jacques Danton
• Reign of Terror ended after radicals execute Robespierre– July 27, 1794– Robespierre sent to the
guillotine
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• Moderates returned to power and adopted a new constitution
• Established the Directory to govern France – 5 man governing board – Failed to address economic problems and
civil unrest
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• What was the purpose of the Committee of Public Safety?
• What political group took control of the government after the death of Robespierre?