The French Revolution and
Napoleonic Period,
Background to the Revolution
• France’s involvement in American Rev • Financial problems• Three “Estates”
The French Revolution
• National Assembly (later NationalConstituent Assembly)— “Tennis Court Oath”
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
• Constitution of 1791—limited monarchy
Legislative Assembly—Right/Center/Left
• Jacobins and “Paris Commune” (1792)
George Jacques Danton—Lawyer National Convention
Louis XVI after his head rolls
The French Revolution
• Gerondins (Gerondists)—moderates • Reign of Terror—Committee of PublicSafety (Sept 1793-July 1794) Maximilien Robespierre
• “Thermidorian Reaction”
• Establishment of the Directory • Gains of the Revolution
*Liberalism
The French Revolution:
Napoleonic Period (1799-1815)
• Treaty of Campo Formio (1797)
• Replaces Directory with Consulate
(1799) • Domestic reforms— *Centralized government *Bank of France *Concordat of 1801 *Public education *Code Napoleon
The French Revolution:
Napoleonic Period (1799-1815)
• Declares himself Emperor (1804)
• Defeat at Leipzig (e. Germany) in 1813 • Abdicates his throne (March 1814)
• “Hundred Days” (February 1815)
• Defeat at Battle of Waterloo (June 1815) • Napoleon as fulfiller and betrayer of the
Political Aftermath
• Congress of Vienna (Sept 1814-June 1815)
*Louis XVIII—Constitutional Charter *Talleyrand (1756-1836)
*Metternich of Austria
The End Fin
El Fin Ha-Sof Al-Had
