24. Blog Prompt
• Considering France’s debt, the starving
citizens, King Louis XVI trying to increase
taxes, and the political propaganda art of the
time… If you were a French citizen in 1788
what would you want to happen?
• Must be 4 sentences with at least 2 GOOD
supporting details to support your reasoning.
Editor's Notes
Not necessarily good or bad. It depends on your point of view. Only bad if you want a nonbiased point of view.
Oath of the Tennis Court- Jacques-Louis David June 1789- Wanted to reform the tax system and the government in general. Swore to give France a new constitution. King Louis did not have control of the “Constituent Assembly” so he had army troops on standby.
Freed political prisoners.
The Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens, which granted liberty and equality to all Frenchman. The King refused to ratify the decisions of the assembly. A large mob marched to his palace and forcibly took him and his family into custody.
Condemned to death for treason.
Executed October 1793
Jean-Paul Marat, a Jacobin(radical) journalist who was murdered in his bathtub. Killed by Charlotte Corday, a Girondins(moderate). Painted like the paintings of Christ at the time, meant to look like a martyr for the “salvation of the people.”
