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

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Part Four Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 The French Revolution of 1789 struck the first solid blow in continental Western Europ ...

434 Part 4 • Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 the revolutionary era in France. An admirer of the Enlighten­ ment, Napoleon claime ...

CHAPTER 12 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION In 1791, King Louis XVI decided to flee Paris and the French Revolution. A virtual prisoner in ...

436 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution Modern nationalism, too, has its roots in the French Revolution. The rev­ olutionaries enthus ...

The Old Regime in Crisis 437 began to contrast the freedoms Turgot had in mind with the corporate privi­ leges that characterize ...

438 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution gathering wood for fuel. Many landlords raised rents and tried to force share­ cropping arran ...

The Old Regime in Crisis^439 (Left) Louis XVI. (Right) Marie-Antoinette. cake!” when told that the people had no bread). The dau ...

440 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution To sidestep the parlements, Calonne asked the king in February 1787 to convoke an Assembly of ...

The First Stages of the Revolution 441 dilemma would lead to the events that constituted the first stages of the French Revoluti ...

442 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution But the convocation of the Estates-General helped unify public opinion against the king. That ...

The First Stages of the Revolution^443 (Left) The Marquis de Lafayette. (Right) The Abbe Sieves. and monastic orders. Some of th ...

444 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution true representative of national sovereignty. The third estate now claimed legitimate sovereig ...

The First Stages of the Revolution 445 Louis XVI had dismissed Necker on June 22, but reversed himself after learning that thous ...

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 ...