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Imgae of the Batille

The image of king getting caught.

Revolution and Terror, 1789-1794
- Many became keen revolutionaries wh welcomed the changes. - Millions more hated the revolution and did all they could to halt it.

- Setting up National Assembly win for the Third Estate, defeat or the king. - Louis XVI had lost control of the Estates General. - Louis ordered 20,000 royal troops to move into the area around Paris. - People thought the troops were going to break up the Natinoal Assembly. Paris people started to feel afraid. - On July 12, Louis sacked the popular finance minister, Necker,and replaced him with a hardliner who opposed the third estate. - The Angry crowds started looking for weapons to defend themselves from the King's troops. - People broke into arms stores and stole thousands of guns. - July 14, rumour, there were tonnes of gunpowder in the Bastille, an old fortress in the east end of Paris.
 * Revolution, 1789**

- Parisians hated the Batille. - It was a prison. - Bad reputation - The angry crowd won't surrender from the governors. - By evening, they had control of the Bastille.
 * The Storming of the Bastille**

- Fall of Bastille was a symbol of the victory of ordinary people over thepower of their rulers. - Their victory was recorded in many thousands of drawings and paintings. - People are not sure if these images are accurate. - Jacques Godechot, leading French historian said that these pictures were not accurate.
 * Images of the Bastille**

- Louis XVI considered sending his army into Paris to recapture the Bastille. - His war minister told him that the soldiers would refuse his request. - Louis therefore had to give up control of Paris. - To keep order in Paris he allowed the people to set up their own military force, the National Guard. - To run the city, leading officials of the third estate formed a new local government, the Paris Commune. - Riots were starting to take all over the place, and people started setting up their own communes and National Guard units.
 * The King Loses Control**

- The violence then spread into the countryside. (where unemployment was high and millions were hungry) - Many people were searching for food. - Farmers lived in fear of gangs of wanderers who stole food from their fields and damaged their farms. - Rumours swept the countryside that nobles are trying to starve the people by hoarding grain. - Rumours, nobles were paying gangs of wanderers to attack farm and peasants. - Angry peasants responded to the rumours by refusing to pay their feudal dues. - Burned records of their dues. - As the violence spread, fear of gangs increased. - By late July, the whole country was gripped by a 'Great Fear'
 * The Great Fear**

- The deputies in the National Assembly were scared by the violence of the peasants. - On Aug 4, noble deputies, one by one, announced tht they would give up their feudal rights, and dues. - By the next morning hunting rights, tithes, the corvee, and the rights of the mill and the oven had all been abolished. - Feudalism was dead. - France issued a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen'. - All men were free and equal in rights. - It said people should have the right to speak and write freely. - It changed the laws of arrest and imprisonment, and banned torture. - Power in France belonged to the entire people, ot just the king.
 * The Assmebly begins its work**

- Louis refused to sign the decision. (could not become law) - Early in October, he brought more soldiers to Versailles to add to his bodyguard. - It looked as if he was going to break up the Assembly by armed force. - Women gathered and marched through the city, collecting weapons. - October 5, armed with knives, sticks, rifles and two cannons, they marched to Versailles to protest. - Supported by National Guardsmen, they complained to the king about the high price of bread and extra soldiers in Versailles. - Marie Antoinette surrounded by people.
 * The women march to Versailles**

- Over the next two years the Assembly made many new laws, changing the way France was organised and run.
 * The King and the Assembly**

- Most people welcomed these reforms. -On one issue, however, they were divided. - On one side people thought the Church had too much power (land and money). - They also thought Clergy had too much power (lived unholy lives) - On the other had, there were millions of God-fearing Catholics who had never questioned it. - Many Catholics protested when the National Assembly began taking money. - Protest got bigger in July 1790 when the Assembly drew up a law reducing the power of the Church. - It ordered all clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the French nation and the law. - Almost half of the Clergy refused to take this oath. - The Pope supported their protest by condemning the new law. - Clergy was divided, people who took the oath and supported the revolution, and those who refuesed the oath and opposed the revolution.
 * The reform of the church**

- Louis XVI was deeply unhappy with the Civil COnstitution. - He sided with the priests who refused to take the oath. - Angry crowds, protested at the gates of the Tuileries Palace. - Louis now decided to leave France. - Their aim was to get help from the French princes. - Assistance from Marie Antoinette's brother Leopold, the Emperor of Austria. - Louis and his family had to mek a secret escape. - On 21 June 1791 they all in disguise, escaped. - Local authorities were waiting for them in the little town of Varennes. - They got arrested.
 * The flight to Varennes**

Did the women march actually help? When did the Gang Fear end and how?
 * Question**

The French Revolution had started. Crowds stealing money and weapons, trying to destroy the royal power. They break in Bastille. Soon, as time goes by, the king loses his control. The Nobility, uses armed forces (gangs) to steal food and kill peasants. This lead to the great fear where every citizens in France was suffereing from fear. Then France reforms its National Assembly. They also reform Churches. The king tries to escape but, he gets caught by people.
 * Summary**