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Which act was more revolutionary: The Tennis Court

Oath or the Storming of the Bastille?

How revolutionary was the National Assembly?

The August Decrees• NA response to the Great Fear of Summer

1789 – debated on 4th Aug 1789.• Went much further than the original cahiers had proposed.• Abolition of Feudalism in France• Tithes• Purchase of Office• Special Privileges

• Introduction of new freedoms:• Fair taxation• All Frenchmen granted same rights and

privileges• Able to enter any profession regardless of birth.

What are ‘feudal dues’?

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

• Foundation of French Constitution. N.B National Assembly became Constituent Assembly.• “Men are born free and remain free and equal in their

rights.”• Established system of meritocracy.• Laid down plans for fully representative elected

assembly.• Built on the ideas of the Philosophes.

Relationship with Louis XVI

• Still respected and supported by majority of population, including members of the Constituent Assembly.• CA sought to establish a Constitutional Monarchy.• Debate focussed not on whether there should be a King,

but what position the King should have.

What is a Constitutional Monarchy?

Constituent Assembly Proposals

• Single elected Assembly – What is the alternative?• It would decide laws and set taxation.• King would ensure that laws were carried out.• He could still appoint ministers, but these ministers

were directly responsible to the elected Assembly.• The King had suspensive veto.

Louis’s Response?

The October Days – 5th Oct 1789 – The March of the Women

AimsConstitutional Monarchy or a

republic?

MethodsPeaceful, threat of violence or actual

violence?

Who were they?Peasants, sans-culottes, clergy,

nobles, bourgeois?

Where events took place?

Paris, towns, rural France

1. The opening of

the Estates

General

2. National

Assembly

3. The fall of

Bastille

4. The October

Days

Discussion Points1. How much did the aims of the revolutionaries change?

2. When did violence develop and why did it increase?

3. Who was the driving force behind the revolution?

4. To what extent was this a Parisian revolution?

5. What sort of revolution was taking place at different times during the year?

6. Historians have suggested different dates for the outbreak of the Revolution. Which would you choose – 17 June, 14 July or 6 October – or

another date?