HIST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Maximilien Robespierre
10 Aug 2016
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Week 11: the french revolution and the napoleonic era, 1789-1815 . The french revolution and the fall of the monarchy: The financial problems of the french monarchy forced louis xvi to call the. People from all walks of life hoped the estates-general would provide relief for their problems. Third estate to leave the estates-general and form the national assembly. The storming of the bastille demonstrated that a new political reality was emerging in which the king was no longer in control of events. Rioting in the countryside sparked by fear of aristocratic conspiracy forced the national assembly to abolish the system of privileges. Six thousand parisian women forced louis xvi and his family to return to paris. The declaration of the rights of man and citizen and the constitution of 1791 encapsulated the goals of the first phase of the revolution. War, fiscal crisis, and counterrevolutionary activity pushed the revolution into a new and more radical phase.
