French+Revolution

Jason Gao

Identify the grievances of the groups that made up the Third Estate in France on the eve of the French Revolution, and analyze the extent to which ONE of these groups was able to address its grievances in the period 1789-1799.

Thesis: The various groups in the Third Estate of Olden France held various grievances, from money problems to political wishes, leading to radical methods to obtain their freedom from the government.

Peasants' views Artisans' views Bourgeoisie views Peasants' extent of addressing grievances
 * Cahiers d'doleances (repeat, can go any of three)
 * 75-80% of total population, owned 35-40% of land
 * Obligations to local landlords... "relics of feudalism"
 * Payment of fees for use of village facilities, tithes to clergy, allowances for nobles to hunt on land
 * Nobility isolated from peasants
 * Feudal dues
 * Peasants totally disadvantaged when pests came in, because nobles protected those pests for hunting
 * tailles
 * Cahiers d'doleances (repeat, can go any of three)
 * Economic discontent
 * Riots in relation to bread prices
 * Cahiers d'doleances (repeat, can go any of three)
 * Excluded from social, political priveleges
 * Large separation in level
 * American Revolution's effects
 * Provided that liberal political ideas of the Enlightenment were not merely the vapid utterances of intellectuals
 * Lafayette returns from war with ideas of liberties and republican ideas
 * Robert-Francois Damiens attempts to kill Louis XV
 * Estates General
 * Abbe Sieyes
 * What is the third estate? Everything. What has it been thus far in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand? To become something.
 * Tennis Court Oath (combined with all other groups)
 * National Assembly
 * Fall of the Bastille
 * Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
 * Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
 * October Days
 * Bread riots
 * Committee of Public Safety
 * Robespierre
 * Reign of Terror
 * Thermidorean Reaction
 * Directory
 * Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
 * Guillotine as symbol of revolution
 * Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/ http://history-world.org/french_revolution.htm