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What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
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Socio-Economic Data, 1789
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The French Urban Poor
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% of Income Spent on Bread
1787
1788
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What made conditions right for revolution?
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• Urban Commoner’sBudget:– Food 80%– Rent 25%– Tithe 10%– Taxes 35%– Clothing 20%– TOTAL 170%
• King’s Budget:– Interest 50%– Army 25%– Versailles
25%– Coronation
10%– Loans 25%– Admin. 25%– TOTAL 160%
Financial Problemsin France, 1789
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The French Monarchy:1775 - 1793
Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI
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The Necklace Scandal
Y Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan
Y The Countess de LaMotte
1,600,000 livres
[$100 million today]
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Let Them Eat Cake!
Y Marie Antoinette NEVER said that!
Y “Madame Deficit”
Y “The Austrian Whore”
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Where is the tax money?
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Why do some historians credit the Enlightenment with bringing about the
French Revolution?
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Convening the Estates General May, 1789
Last time it was called into session was 1614!
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Commoners3rd Estate
Aristocracy2nd Estate
Clergy1st Estate
The Suggested Voting Pattern:Voting by Estates
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Commoners3rd Estate
Aristocracy2nd Estate
Clergy1st Estate
The Number of Representativesin the Estates General: Vote by Head!
300
300
648
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“The Tennis Court Oath”
by Jacques Louis David
June 20, 1789
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Storming the Bastille,July 14, 1789
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The Great Fear:Peasant Revolt
July 20, 1789
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March of the Women,October 5-6, 1789
We want the baker, the baker’s wife and the baker’s boy!
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The Tricolor (1789)
The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of
Paris.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man
August 26, 1789
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How did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette respond to the
needs of the poor in France?
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What influence did Jean Paul Marat have on the
revolution?
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How did the French Revolution change
France?