Topics+of+Study

=** Topics of Study – French Revolution  **= Social structure – three Estates, rights and privileges, taxation. Theory and practice of Divine Right. Relationship between Church and Monarchy. France ’s economic situation in 1781. Involvement in American War. Necker’s //Compte Rendu//. Growing tension, calls for economic reform. Assembly of Notables, dismissal of the Paris //Parlement//, call for the Estates General. Examination of the key ideas of the Enlightenment and their impact on calls for reform. The //Philosophes//. Key personalities /writers. Writing of the //Cahiers//, elections to the Estates General, raised expectations, the issue of the ‘doubling of the third’. ‘What is the Third Estate?’. Collapse of the Estates General. The Tennis Court Oath. What was revolutionary about the formation of the National Assembly, and why did it prevail over threats from the Crown and aristocracy? Storming of the Bastille. ‘Who stormed it and why?’. The Great Fear. 4 August the surrender of privileges in the National Assembly. August Decrees 1789, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789. Declining influence of the Monarchy. The October Days, return of King to Paris. Influence of various leaders such as Lafayette, Mirabeau, Bailly. Development of policies and ideas on which to found the new society. Role of monarchy, work of the National Assembly, reforms to finance, the economy, justice and the Church. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy Peasant and //Sans Culottes// disillusionment with the revolution 1790 to 1791. The formation of political clubs, the Cordeliers, the Jacobins Leaders such as Danton, Desmoulins, Marat. The King’s flight to Varennes. Emergence of republican sentiments, The Champs de Mars. The Constitution of 1791. The Legislative Assembly. Declaration of war on Austria, increasing tension in Paris. Invasion of Tuileries and massacre of the Swiss guard August 1792. Imprisonment of Louis XVI. The Convention September 1792, September massacres, progress of the war. The trial and execution of the King, death of Marat, counter revolution. Extension of war. The Committee of Public Safety, legislation of the Terror, influence of individuals such as Robespierre, Danton, Hebert and the sans culottes. Dechristianisation. The Great Terror June–July 1794. Withdrawal of policies of the Terror, return of Girondins to the Convention.
 * If you're savvy with all of this stuff, you're set to go! **
 * Unit 3: France 1781 – dissolution of the Convention Year 111 (1795) **