What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
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What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
Socio-Economic Data, 1789
The French Urban Poor
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
% of Income Spent on Bread
1787
1788
What made conditions right for revolution?
• Urban Commoner’sBudget:– Food 80%– Rent 25%– Tithe 10%– Taxes 35%– Clothing 20%– TOTAL 170%
• King’s Budget:– Interest 50%– Army 25%– Versailles
25%– Coronation
10%– Loans 25%– Admin. 25%– TOTAL 160%
Financial Problemsin France, 1789
The French Monarchy:1775 - 1793
Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI
The Necklace Scandal
Y Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan
Y The Countess de LaMotte
1,600,000 livres
[$100 million today]
Let Them Eat Cake!
Y Marie Antoinette NEVER said that!
Y “Madame Deficit”
Y “The Austrian Whore”
Where is the tax money?
Why do some historians credit the Enlightenment with bringing about the
French Revolution?
Convening the Estates General May, 1789
Last time it was called into session was 1614!
Commoners3rd Estate
Aristocracy2nd Estate
Clergy1st Estate
The Suggested Voting Pattern:Voting by Estates
1
1
1
Commoners3rd Estate
Aristocracy2nd Estate
Clergy1st Estate
The Number of Representativesin the Estates General: Vote by Head!
300
300
648
“The Tennis Court Oath”
by Jacques Louis David
June 20, 1789
Storming the Bastille,July 14, 1789
The Great Fear:Peasant Revolt
July 20, 1789
March of the Women,October 5-6, 1789
We want the baker, the baker’s wife and the baker’s boy!
The Tricolor (1789)
The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of
Paris.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
August 26, 1789
How did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette respond to the
needs of the poor in France?
What influence did Jean Paul Marat have on the
revolution?
How did the French Revolution change
France?
