Rise of nationalism in france and the revolution - 10th standard

3. Le Prologue
Le Triomphe Le Marché
Le Pacte
UTOPIAN
VISION –
FREDERIC
SORRIEU’S

4. FREDERIC SORRIEU - Le Pacte
• The first print shows the people of Europe
and America marching in a long train and
offering homage to the Statue of Liberty as
they pass it. The torch of Enlightenment was
carried by a female figure in one hand and
the Charter of the Rights of Man in the
other.
• On the earth in the foreground lie the
shattered remains of the symbols of
absolutist institutions.
• In Sorrieu’s utopian vision, the people of the
world are grouped as distinct nations,
identified through their flags and national
costume.
• The procession was led by the United States
and Switzerland, followed by France and
Germany. Following the German people are
the people of Austria, the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, Lombardy, Poland, England,
Ireland, Hungary and Russia.
• From the heavens above, Christ, saints and
angels gaze upon the scene. They have been
used by the artist to symbolise fraternity
among the nations of the world.

5. French Revolution -1789
• Under the rule of an absolute monarch - king Louie XVI.
• Monarchy to body of French citizens.
• The revolution proclaimed that it was the people who would
henceforth constitute the nation and shape its destiny.
• French revolutionaries introduced various measures and practices that
could create a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.
• The ideas of ‘la patrie ‘(the fatherland) and ‘le citoyen’ (the citizen)
emphasised the notion of a united community enjoying equal rights
under a constitution.
• Further the revolutionaries wanted to liberate the people of Europe
and to lead them to become nations.
• Students and other members of educated middle classes started
setting up of Jacobin clubs.
• Their activities and campaigns prepared the way for the French armies
which moved into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy in the 1790s.
• With the outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began
to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.

6. French Revolution - CHANGES
• A new French flag, the tricolour, was chosen to
replace the former royal standard.
• Regional dialects were discouraged and French, as
it was spoken and written in Paris, became the
common language of the nation.
• New hymns were composed, oaths taken and
martyrs commemorated, all in the name of the
nation.
• The Estates General was elected by the body of
active citizens and renamed the National
Assembly.
• A centralised administrative system was put in
place and it formulated uniform laws for all
citizens within its territory.
• Internal customs duties and dues were abolished
and a uniform system of weights and measures
was adopted.

7. NAPOLEAN’S COOP 1799
• Over threw the then governing
body by seizing the political
power in a coup.
• Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled
military strategist, Napoleon
successfully waged war against
various coalitions of European
nations and expanded his empire.
• Become the emperor of France -
1804.
• He was the de facto leader of the
French Republic.
• https://www.history.com/topics/f
rance/napoleon - breif reading

8. CHANGES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
• He established civil code in 1804 also
known as the Napoleonic Code.
• It did away with all privileges based on
birth.
• It established equality before the law and
secured the right to property.
• He simplified administrative divisions, the
abolished feudal system, and freed
peasants from serfdom and manorial
dues.
• In towns too, guild systems were
removed.
• Transport and communication systems
were improved.
• Peasants, artisans, businessmen and
workers enjoyed the newfound freedom.

9. RECAP
• How revolution began?
• What were the changes bought?
• How it was carried out?
• Who seized the political power, how and what
changed did he bring?

10. • Nation – Ernst Renan
• Utopian
• Absoluist
• Liberty
• Revolution
• De facto leader