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AWESOME STUFF:
***A story map about the revolt occurred in the Bastille**

***The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen**

(from textbook) ***Painting that shows prisoners being helped out of a dungeon in the Bastille.**

***Revolution occurred in the Bastille - one of the most famous events of the French Revolution**

Revolution in France pg 28-38

 * 1789, the revolution began spreading to other parts of France.
 * This brought changes in the society, government and religion of France

**Revolution:**
 * Victory for the third estate, setting up the National Assembly
 * Defeat for the king
 * Louis lost control of the Estates General
 * He ordered troops to move into the area around Paris
 * People suspected that the troops were going to break up the National Assembly
 * Louis dismissed the finance minister, Necker and replaced him with a hardliner who opposed the third estate
 * People began to feel afraid and searched for weapons to defend themselves
 * Rumors went around that there were tones of gunpowder in the Bastille

**The attack on the Bastille:**
 * Parisians hated the Bastille (a prison where prisoners were sent by sealed letters)
 * People that went to the Bastille looking for weapons blown down the gates, they wanted to destroy the fortress (smashing anything in their way)
 * They gained control of the Bastille

**Image of the Bastille:** **The king loses control:**
 * The fall of the Bastille - the most famous events of the French revolution
 * Their victory was recorded in many drawings and paintings
 * Some pictures showing the climax of events (arrest of the prison governor)
 * Some pictures showing what people found inside the Bastille after they had captured it
 * But these images might not be accurate
 * French historian found out that there were only seven prisoners in the Bastille
 * Prisoner's list of meals and an account of his spending:
 * Louis gave up control of Paris (allowed the people to set their own military force)
 * Leading officials of the third estate formed a local government, the Paris Commune
 * Riots and attacks occurred all over France, setting up own communes & National Guard units

**The Great Fear:**
 * Unemployment was high and millions of people were hungry in the countryside
 * Rumors spread that nobles were trying to starve people and paying the gangs
 * Peasants refused to pay their feudal dues
 * Fear of gangs increased
 * The whole country was gripped by a 'Great Fear'

**The Assembly begins its work:**
 * The deputies in the National Assembly were scared by the violence of the peasants
 * Noble deputies started to give up their feudal rights and dues
 * No feudalism
 * Assembly issued a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen'
 * all men were free and equal in rights
 * right to speak and write freely
 * power belonged to the entire people, not just the king

**The women march to Versailles:**
 * Louis refused to sign them (cannot become law)
 * Women began to gather in the streets, marching through the city, collecting weapons
 * They marched to Versailles to protest
 * Complained to the king about the high price of bread and about the extra soldiers in Versailles
 * They asked Louis to leave Versailles and live in Paris (it allows them to keep an eye on him)
 * Louis, Marie Antoinette and their oldest son were travelled to Paris

**Reforms of the National Assembly:**
 * 1789-1792, the Assembly made new laws and changed the way France was organized
 * the //taille// tax was abolished
 * slavery in France was abolished
 * noble titles were abolished

**The reform of the Church:**
 * One side of argument - people who thought that Church had too much power, land, and money.
 * Other side of argument - God-fearing Catholics who could see no reason to change it
 * Catholics protested when the National Assembly took land and money from the Church
 * Assembly drew up a law - the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (priests and bishops must be elected like other public officials)
 * Ordered clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the French nation and the law, but half of them refused
 * Clergy divided into those who took the oath and those who refused

**The flight to Varennes:**
 * Louis and his family decided to leave France
 * to get help from the French princes
 * hoped for assistance from Marie Antoinette's brother Leopold, the Emperor of Austria
 * get rid of the Assembly and take back their power
 * News was sent, the local authorities in the little town of Varennes arrested them and sent back to Paris

**The road to war:**
 * Emperor Leopold promised them to help regain their power
 * Leopold actually had no intention to attack France
 * Rumors spread about that the foreign armies would soon invade
 * Louis wanted war to regain his power
 * People who opposed Louis also wanted war to see clearly whose side he was on
 * They would de-throne him and make France a Republic if he takes the side of the invaders

**Summary:** As revolution spread to other parts of France, King Louis began losing his power and taking the opposing side of the revolution. Assuming that Louis was about to break up the National Assembly, people began searching for weapons to defend themselves. People went to the Bastille to search for weapons and ended up destroying the Bastille, taking control of the fortress. Followed by this incident, riots and violent protests occurred all over France. The violence even spread into the countryside, which later makes the whole country gripped by the 'Great Fear'. As the deputies in the National Assembly feared the violence of the peasants, the noble deputies started to give up their feudal rights and dues. And later they issued a 'Declaration of the Rights of a Man and the Citizen', stating that all men are equal. Crowds of women also began to protest to make Louis leave Versailles and come with them to live in Paris. Reforms were made by the National Assembly to change the way France was organized. As the king loses his power and control over the country, he and his family planned for an escape, but they were caught by the local authorities in the little town of Varennes. This incident was the first step on a road to war. Rumors spread about the foreign armies that will going to invade the country. However, people wanted war, they wanted to dethrone Louis and make France a Republic.

**Questions:** 1. Why did Louis wanted to break the National Assembly?