HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tuileries Palace, Girondins, Decimal Time
Week 10 Lecture HIST1601
The French Revolution:
Video:
• John Green French Revolution
The Australian:
• French election
• Compared with what happened in the Revolution
• Eiffel Tower built for centenary of Revo
Outline:
• Largely an intellectual movement
• Great inequalities
• When, who, what, where – for exam
• Revision for exam
• Exam – remember to correct room
Cook:
• 1755 – Cook joined Navy
• French-English war
• Struggled to pay debts
• New Holland 1770
• Botany Bay
France in 1770:
• “ee Years War
• Marie and Louis marries – storm – superstition of gods frowning
What we know?
• Pop culture
• Overthrow of monarchy
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
• 1789 – flag
• Many traced back to this time
Importance:
• Most important in Western History
• Ushered in a period of democracy
• Worth the cost
• Crossroads in history
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Other images:
• Bonaparte
• Eiffel Tower
• Marie Antoinette – let the eat ake rogly aused
Lead-Up and cause:
• Prices when up
• Bread was not fixed by the government
• Population when up – more mouths to feed
• Aristocracy – seen to have a very lavish lifestyle
• King and Queen - turned to fashion
• Enlightenment – rational society
• Let the way
Ancien Regime:
• Old system
• Used to point fingers
• Divided into 3 estates
• Clergy, aristocracy and commoners
• All a plot – manipulating so commoners were more docile
• Art of Versailles – oozed power
• Slap in the face for ordinary people
• Marie Antoinette demonized
1789:
• Parliament of Paris
• Tax increase – calling Estate Generals together - 1787
• 1788 – meeting by Louis
• Third given twice as many votes
• Giving people more power
• View that they would all come together
• Third – National Assembly
• Called for democratic order
• Greater power for themselves
• Fall of the Bastille by angry mob
• Symbolic – however needed weapons
• Declaration of the rights of man
• Preference to keep the king in place
• Woman in the revo
• March on Versailles – response to bread shortages
• Support in national assembly
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Document Summary
The australian: french election, compared with what happened in the revolution, eiffel tower built for centenary of revo. Outline: largely an intellectual movement, great inequalities, when, who, what, where for exam, revision for exam, exam remember to correct room. Cook: 1755 cook joined navy, french-english war, struggled to pay debts, new holland 1770, botany bay. France in 1770: e(cid:448)e(cid:374) years(cid:859) war, marie and louis marries storm superstition of gods frowning. What we know: pop culture, overthrow of monarchy, liberty, equality, fraternity, 1789 flag, many traced back to this time. Importance: most important in western history, ushered in a period of democracy, worth the cost, crossroads in history. Other images: bonaparte, eiffel tower, marie antoinette (cid:862)let the(cid:373) eat (cid:272)ake(cid:863) (cid:449)ro(cid:374)gly a(cid:272)(cid:272)used. Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen: reminded of the kant, french law, (cid:862)me(cid:374) are (cid:271)or(cid:374) a(cid:374)d re(cid:373)ai(cid:374) free(cid:863) Versailles tuileries palace: tried to escape, did not end well.
