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The French Revolution

CHOICES for the 21st Century Education Program

September 2009

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Susan Graseck

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Acknowledgments

The French Revolution was developed by the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program with the assistance of the research staff at the Watson Institute for International Studies, scholars at Brown University, and other experts in the field. We wish to thank the following researchers for their invaluable input:

Jonathan Beecher

Professor of History, University of California at Santa Cruz

Abbott Gleason

Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Sharon Larson

Adjunct Assistant Professor of French, Providence College

Cover image and maps by Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray.

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Contents

Introduction: The Summer of 1789

1

Part I: France under the Old Regime

2

A New King

2

French Society

2

The Political Structure

6

France and the Age of Enlightenment

8

Part II: Crises and Change--1774-1789

12

Financial Crises

12

Political Evolution

14

The Estates General

16

The Fall of the Bastille

20

The National Constituent Assembly and the Future of France

23

Options in Brief

26

Option 1: Conserve the Power of the King

27

Option 2: Create a Constitutional Monarchy

30

Option 3: Liberate France from the Old Regime

33

Part III: A Revolution, a Republic, and the Terror

36

Revolutionary France

36

The Flight to Varennes

39

The Republican Revolution

40

The Terror

44

Thermidorian Reaction

48

Supplementary Documents

51

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