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Estate system or Ancien Regime
The feudal system before the French Revolution:
1st Estate (clergy + king)
2nd Estate (nobles)
3rd Estate (just about everybody else)
National Assembly
The assembly of the 3rd Estate that declared themselves as the true government of France
Constitution of 1791
The first written constitution that turned France into a constitutional monarchy after the absolute monarchy
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The “bill of rights” that were presented by the National Assembly
Declaration of the Rights of Women
Olympe de Gouge’s counterpart to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen that argued for women’s rights
March on Versailles
AKA the Bread March
after the price of bread skyrocketed
essentially stripped Louis XVI’s remaining independence and put him on house arrest
Declaration of Pillnitz
Declaration by HRE and Fredrick William of Prussia trying to restore Louis XVI to absolute power again
Bastille
The hungry peasant mob stormed this place, which had a bunch of weapons stored
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
An attempt to make France Catholic again → caused many catholics to turn against the revolution
Liberal phase
The period of the French revolution where the people were simply demanding rights and a constitutional monarchy
Radical phase
The period of the French revolution where people’s heads were actually being cut off (reign of terror)
Code Napoleon
The Napoleonic Code gave equal rights to men and gave them one legal code to stand under, regardless of class
basically stripped women of all power and authority
Concordat of 1801
Thing that Napoleon and Pope signed to address all of the anti-religious policies that were established during the French Revolution
Abolition of provinces and division of France into departments
Historical boundaries were broken in France and new ones were created to increase the feeling of “one nation”
Secret police
Napoleon used these to spy on his citizens
Nepotism
Napoleon appointed his family members to the thrones of countries that he conquered
ex. Spain
Bourbons
The previous monarch dynasty was returned to France (Louis XVIII)
Congress of Vienna
The meeting between the great powers to figure out how to keep the balance of power and limit France (or any country) from becoming too tanky
Women’s role in the French Revolution
March on Versailles
Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouge
Haitian Revolution
After seeing the French Revolution, the people of Haiti revolted against the french land lords and gained their independence
Robespierre
The Reign of Terror dude → got his head cut off by the end
Marat
defender of the sans-culottes
against the French monarchy
helped in the rise of the Jacobins
but was supportive of the reign of terror
Danton
Was against the monarchy and helped in the French Revolution
a moderate
was against the radical reign of terror and got his head chopped off because of it
Jacobins
radical party that wanted to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic
Girondins
The more prominent faction of the Jacobin party
Napoleon
The handsome dictator of France after the failure of the National Convention
