A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

446 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution The taking of the Bastille, July 14, 1789. and a municipal defense force or National Guard (c ...

Consolidating the Revolution 447 townspeople and peasants formed armed units to defend themselves and save the harvest. New loca ...

448 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Europe against the Revolution, the king himself became vulnerable to the tide of Parisian pop ...

Consolidating the Revolution 449 “The Bakery the Bakers Wifey and the Bakers Little Boy” The political crisis was by no means ov ...

450 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Women of Paris leaving for Versailles. sang that they were returning to Paris with ‘The Baker ...

Consolidating the Revolution 451 land—began to be offered for sale at auction. The primary beneficiaries of the sale were urban ...

452 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution The Reforms of 1791 The Constitution of 1791 formalized the break with the Old Regime by subs ...

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454 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution The Three Estates hammering out the next constitution. would fight against Britain. Half of H ...

Consolidating the Revolution 455 Such resistance prompted further calls for even more radical changes. Some of the revolutionari ...

456 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution oppose the Revolution. In a world in which symbols played a crucial political role, sans­ cul ...

War and the Second Revolution^457 (Left) Georges-Jacques Danton. (Right) Maximilien Robespierre. The leaders of the Parisian pop ...

458 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Reactions to the French Revolution in Europe The French Revolution had a considerable impact ...

War and the Second Revolution 459 Olympe de Gouges (left), whose book The Rights of Women was published in France in 1791. It de ...

460 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution soon joined with Austria in fighting the French. The early stages of the war produced French ...

War and the Second Revolution^461 The September Massacre of 1792 in the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris. ing 225 priest ...

462 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Map 12.2 Expansion of Revolutionary France, 1792-1799 The map indi­ cates French revolutionar ...

War and the Second Revolution 463 the end of September. They declared them within the “natural frontiers” of France—a claim that ...

464 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution degree of local political control. The deputies of the far left, principally the Jacobins and ...

War and the Second Revolution 465 Map 12.3 The Counter-Revolution The map indicates areas of federalism and counter-revolutionar ...