1. Area of Study 2
5th August 1789 - Sept. 1795

4. 5-11 Aug - August Decrees - watered down the absolute
renunciations made on the night of Aug 4th. Many
peasants believed that feudalism had been abolished
absolutely, but in fact many of the former seigneurial dues
had to be redeemed or paid out. Other feudal taxes were
to remain in place until the taxation system could be
reformed. Many peasants simply stopped paying taxes
from this time!

7. 20-26th Aug:
Discussion and
The Declaration of
the Rights of Man &
Citizen
This document was
to be called the blue
print of the
Revolution

10. 5-6th Oct - March of Women to Versailles - King and family
brought back to Paris - the SECOND revolutionary journee

11. The King was forced to pass the August Decrees and the
DRMC, thus the women had ‘saved’ the Revolution once
more!
But the King argued that from this time on, all his actions
were taken under duress and that he was not therefore
bound by any of his oaths of allegiance to the
Constitution of France.
The National Assembly also followed the King to Paris. it
felt itself to be answerable to the people of Paris, and
indeed, no government could now hold power without the
support of Paris.

12. Reforms introduced by the National Constituent
Assembly -
The Re-organisation of France
1789-91

22. 2 Nov - Nationalisation and sale of Church property
to float new paper currency - assignats

23. 2 Nov - Nationalisation and sale of Church property
to float new paper currency - assignats
14-19 Dec - Reorganisation of local government - power
decentralised to 83 departments - division of ‘active’ &
‘passive’ citizens.

24. 2 Nov - Nationalisation and sale of Church property
to float new paper currency - assignats
14-19 Dec - Reorganisation of local government - power
decentralised to 83 departments - division of ‘active’ &
‘passive’ citizens.
19 Dec - First issue of assignats: 100 livre assignats = 100
livre coins.
Many merchants & others very dubious of wisdom of
issuing paper money. Throughout the Revolution the
assignats steadily lost value. By Sept1795 it had fallen to
100 livres assignats = 1.4 livres in coins!

25. Remodelling of France:
Over time 1789-91 -
new tax system implemented (1791),
free-trade measures introduced - removal of
price controls, abolition of tariffs, guilds (1791),
single system of weights & measures,
state assumed duty of poor relief,
new uniform justice system with jury of 12,
more humane penal system.

27. 1790 - May: Decree abolishing King’s right to declare
war
19 June: Abolition of nobility
12 July: Civil Constitution of the Clergy - the ‘first major
mistake of the Revolution’! It divided the loyalty of the
nation: those who supported the State and the
Constitutional Church versus those who who supported
refractory or non-juring clergy and whose loyalty tot he
Revolution was therefore suspect. For many, they felt
they had to choose between the Revolution and their
religious faith!
It was a direct cause of the King’s Flight to Varennes.
27 Nov: Clerical Oath of loyalty to the nation imposed
(the next major mistake)

28. 1790 - May: Decree abolishing King’s right to declare
war
19 June: Abolition of nobility
12 July: Civil Constitution of the Clergy - the ‘first major
mistake of the Revolution’! It divided the loyalty of the
nation: those who supported the State and the
Constitutional Church versus those who who supported
refractory or non-juring clergy and whose loyalty tot he
Revolution was therefore suspect. For many, they felt
they had to choose between the Revolution and their
religious faith!
It was a direct cause of the King’s Flight to Varennes.
27 Nov: Clerical Oath of loyalty to the nation imposed
(the next major mistake)

30. 1791 - April: Death of Mirabeau
20-21 June: Royal Flight to Varennes - King attempted to
join emigre armies over the border - promoted by the
King’s severe disapproval of the Civil Constitution of the
Clergy (CCofC)
25th June: Humiliating return of Royal family to Paris

31. 1791 - April: Death of Mirabeau
20-21 June: Royal Flight to Varennes - King attempted to
join emigre armies over the border - promoted by the
King’s severe disapproval of the Civil Constitution of the
Clergy (CCofC)
25th June: Humiliating return of Royal family to Paris

32. 1791 - April: Death of Mirabeau
20-21 June: Royal Flight to Varennes - King attempted to
join emigre armies over the border - promoted by the
King’s severe disapproval of the Civil Constitution of the
Clergy (CCofC)
25th June: Humiliating return of Royal family to Paris

33. 1791 - April: Death of Mirabeau
20-21 June: Royal Flight to Varennes - King attempted to
join emigre armies over the border - promoted by the
King’s severe disapproval of the Civil Constitution of the
Clergy (CCofC)
25th June: Humiliating return of Royal family to Paris

34. 1791 - April: Death of Mirabeau
20-21 June: Royal Flight to Varennes - King attempted to
join emigre armies over the border - promoted by the
King’s severe disapproval of the Civil Constitution of the
Clergy (CCofC)
25th June: Humiliating return of Royal family to Paris

35. Although King demonstrated he was a traitor, the
National Constituent Assembly decided to ‘cover up’ and
to continue working on the Constitution with the king
as its head.
17th July: Champ de Mars Massacre: Bailly, major of Paris
and leader of Pais Commune, gave the oder to Lafayette
to disperse the crowd gathered to sign petition
demanding the removal of King.
Troops fired into crowd - deaths.
Bailly & Lafayette were discredited with the people.
Organisers of petition (Robespierre, Danton, & other)
were discredited with the Commune & Assembly.
Danton fled, Robespierre moved house & lived very
quietly for a period.

36. 14 Sep: King unwillingly accepted the Constitution of
1791
30 Sep: Final Session of National Constituent Assembly
1 Oct: First session of the Legislative Assembly
Although the King had accepted the 1791 Constitution,
he attempted over the next twelve months to undemine
it by using his power of veto.

37. LIBERAL BOURGEOIS
1789 - 1791
CONSENSUS
1 May - 27 June 1789 ESTATES GENERAL
27 June 1789 - NATIONAL /
30 Sept 1791 CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
1 Oct 1791 -
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
20 Sept 1792
Jul/Aug 1792 - RADICALISATION OF
Jul 1794 REVOLUTION
21 Sept 1792 - NATIONAL
26 Oct 1795 CONVENTION
29 Jul 1794 - THERMIDORIAN
26 Oct 1795 REACTION