CGS SS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Maximilien Robespierre, Distributism, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
6 Apr 2016
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The french revolution: the beginning: financial crisis (started with bankruptcy) Danton and marat: publish newspapers to rile up crowds and put pressure on monarch, worked up mobs of paris to attack bastille (symbol of absolute monarchy) 14 july: fall of the bastille: bust down door and kill everyone inside. Great fear of 1789: series of bad harvests, believed landlords increasing price of wheat by hoarding it. Night of four august 1789: peasant rebel and burn down aristocracies homes, renounced feudal rights and declared equality in taxation, marks formal end of feudalism in france (abolish 3 estate system, national assembly. Declaration of rights of man and the citizen (26 august 1789: declaration declare social equality (destroy stratification system, denies sovereignty to king for everyone, rights of government won by frenchman were rights of people everywhere. Migr s: group of aristocrats who didn"t like what was happening (emigrated, wanted to raise army to attack france b/c wanted monarchy.
