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The French Revolution
CHOICES for the 21st Century Education Program
September 2009
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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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