Syllabus: key figures:
① The origins and onset of the Revolution 1774-89 M • first Controller General-Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
/1774-influenced by philosophes,willing to reform guilds and
② Revolution and the failure of constitutional monarchy, 1789-93 / corvee; eventually, left.
• Charles Alexandre de Calonne-controller General frome 1783
③ The National Conventions, the Jacobins,and the Terror,1793-9411 who proposed a reform that was rejected by the
Assembly of Notables. Dismissed in 1787 due to opp.
④ From the Directory to Brumaire, 1795-9917 • Jacques Necker-Controller-General who was
raising loans for funding the war. In 1781, comple rendu
timeline showed a fake surplus that gave people more confidence.
1614 4198 summoning of Estates General Before
• Lomenie de Brienne-Brienne took the land tax
The seven years' war
idea of Calonne and added more reforms, such as:
1756-63
1774 -
Accession of Louis XVI end to renal offices, more efficient and cheaper military,
France entered the American War of Independence 1778 educational reform,central treasury,religious toleration
Publication of Compte Rendu 1781
1781-87 Economic crisis
Eden Treaty 1786 (Aug/Calonne proposed financial reforms Turgot → Necker → Calonne → Brienne → Neoker
(May) Assembly of Notables dissolved
(Feb) Assembly of Notables met 1787
(Apr) Lou's dismissed Calonne 1788
Estates General: • Cahiers > all demanded change, constitution
(June) Revolt of the nobility • voting method
(Jul) Louis agreed to summon Estates-General
• elected deputies • overall process
(Aug) announcement of bankrupt' -
1789 Summoning Estates-General
EG met at Versailles Mays
National Assemble June 17 1- and Est by Estate ↘ June 17 1768 3rd Estate separated
Tennis Coart Oath June no
3rd by head and became the National Assembly. June
citizens'militia July 11 15,clergy joined
July 14 Storming of the Bastile
July 20:Starty Fear
August: Decrees
October bays 005-6
Nov-Dec reforms (assignant/churon)
1790 Chapter 2
France divided to deport. Feb
1) long term causes of French Revolution
May-June ypah.ie % Elections
Civil constitution of the clergy July - the royal government -limitations to power, Marie, personality
Aug: Reorganising of the judicianary
- structure of French society-absenteeism/plurality, privileges,tithes,tax exemption
Le chapelier Law June 14 I ¾ Flight to Varennes
- Enlightenment ideas
Champ de Mars mass. July 17
Sept. Constitution accepted
- the Taxation system-tax farming/taille,gabelle), venality offices
Decrees against peies, 19,
March-Guillotine for all executions
Refractory priests decrees May
2nd estate privileges: separate court, tax exemption, monopoly rights, exempt from
abolition of feudalism July 17 1793 corvee and military
2) Short-term causes of the French Revolution
• foreign policy-the 7 years'war, Am. war of Independence,
• financial crisis-huge deficit,Calonne announces bankruptcy, 1%9, limitation of
• political crisis royal power
• economic crisis-poor harvests/high demand, high prices),hoarding,
Calonne's tax system reforms: 1) make a single land tax with no exemptions
2) allow free movement of grain to stimulate the economy
3) restore national confidence
In February 1978, the Assembly of Notables of 144 members were noticeably
against the reforms,however not all. They encouraged the summoning g Estates
General for the Approval of the nation. When later Brienne presented his
reforms to the Parlement of Paris, it declared that on the Estates-General
as a whole can approve of this.When, consequently,Louis XVI exiled the Parlement,
the nobility found this very harsh and revolted against in summer 1778-most
opposition.