InNo+JerryL+08.30.2010

@http://landmarkhs.org/news/archives/socialstudies/FrenchRevolution.htm this was a cool presentation I found online =D 

The government of France


 * King Louis the Sixteenth:
 * No one else had power, //absolute// //monarch//
 * Used to be popular with his wife, Marie Antoinette


 * Versailles:
 * 18-km outside Paris
 * Thousand room palace
 * Thousands of royals lives there with King to help him govern

Marie Antoinette


 * Married to King Louis at the age of 14 (1770)
 * Had popularity before but now **disliked**


 * Disliked her because:
 * Foreign "Austrian woman"
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Spent a lot of money on clothes, jewellery, gambling
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Had favorites at court
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Thought to be unfaithful to Louis


 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Petit Trianon:
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Palace given by Louis
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Spent money on huge gardens around her palace:
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Built a village called the hamlet
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">__Spent lots of money to make the village look **poor and rundown**__
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">People thought it was pointless
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Yet some people made facts defending her:
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">12 poor families were able to live in these cottages
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Attempts were made in the farm to improve agriculture
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Brought in 6,000 livres a year

<span style="color: #171a7f; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Use and abuse of power

<span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> People disliked government because King had **too much power:**
 * <span style="color: #83003d; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//Sealed letters//
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">IMPOSE AUTHORITY
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Royal warrant ordering imprisonment of any person (abused power)
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Most names on the letters are ones the King doesn’t know about
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">The King could keep people as long as he liked.
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Ministers could use them too
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">14,000 letters issued, mainly to people against government
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Accused King of being “despot” (18th century: dictator, tyrant)

<span style="color: #171a7f; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Financial problems

<span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> **Royal debt**
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Nearly 100 years’ of debt
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Spent more than received in taxes:
 * <span style="color: #83003d; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> __**//Main spending://**__ __**//interest payment on debt//**__
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Malicious cycle
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">1786: Calonne informed King that they were almost bankrupt
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Must either increase taxes, reduce spending, borrow money

<span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> Attempt at reform
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">No choice but to **raise taxes**
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Tax on land: landlords had to pay
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Nobles and clergy tried to evade
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> All new laws must be registered by Paris Parlement, delay.
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Invited 150 nobles + clergymen as Assembly of Notables to paris to discuss new tax.
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Refused to agree to the new tax
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Use Estates General (parliament elected by all three states) as excuse
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Tried to introduce new tax without approval, nobles refused with same excuse
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Louis exiled entire Parlement from Paris
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Resulted in violent rebellions:
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Day of tiles: four people died
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Lasted for six months
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">1788: Louis gave in,
 * <span style="color: #004c67; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Elections held for Estates General (May 1, 1789)

<span style="color: #171a7f; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">SUMMARY

<span style="color: #6200b9; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> People disliked the French government because Louis the sixteen and his wife had to much power. They could do almost everything they wish and lived a luxurious life while most of their people were suffering from poverty. <span style="color: #6200b9; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> Meanwhile, the French government was facing great financial problems, they had owned to much debt over the years that France was about to go bankrupt. The royals refused to pay taxes and now it was almost impossible to do anything.

<span style="color: #171a7f; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">QUESTIONS

<span style="color: #00a0dc; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> Why did Louis have to give in to the rebellions? Did France lack the army forces to stop them? Why does it seem like Louis is just a puppet and the nobles and clergy have the actual power to make decisions on important matter?

<span style="color: #004c67; font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Petit Trianon <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">