HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tennis Court Oath, Maximilien Robespierre, Serfdom
Notes 2/26/2018
The French Revolution and Napoleon
1. Debt
2. Taxes
3. Wars in 1700’s
a. Lots of them
i. Humiliated
4. Grievance notebooks
5. Nobility pushes for changes
6. Big Famine 1787
7. 1787-King Louis XVI forced to call the Estates general assembly
a. 3 estates send representatives
i. Clergy
ii. Nobility
iii. Everyone else
National Assembly/Constituent Assembly
1. Third estate forms national assembly, insists that voting be by head and not estate
2. Tennis Court Oath affirms this and that all representatives from all estates will meet
together
3. Declaration of Rights of Man and citizen
a. King is pressured into giving into demands
Ideals of French Revolution
National Convention/First French Republic
1. 1792-1795
2. Radical stage of the Revolution
3. Jacobins and Robespierre
4. Use of violence and the committee of public safety
Africa and Abolition
The Rise of Napoleon
1. Robespierre overthrown in 1794 for being too radical - the Terror has gone too far.
2. New Government, the Directory, established in 1795. Conservative, but still republican.
3. Napoleon Overthrows the Directory and forms the Consulate in 1799
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