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

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 ...

466 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution The rights of the accused were limited, and new special courts prosecuted anyone considered d ...

War and the Second Revolution 467 movement remained a threat to the orderly transformation of political life in France. Historia ...

468 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution non-threatening, and virtuous, representing the abstract virtues of liberty, popular sovereig ...

War and the Second Revolution 469 Years’ War or the American Civil War). About 300,000 royalists, Girondins, or other “enemies o ...

470 Ch. 12 • The French Revolution The Terror took on a momentum of its own. Saint-Just warned, “We must punish not merely trait ...

The Final Stages of the Revolution 471 the Committee of Public Safety, survived because he had opposed Robe­ spierre. Moreover, ...