H 202: French Revolution |
Main phases of the French Revolution |
General phase | Years | Specific period | Description | ||
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Initial revolution | 1787 - 88 | Pre-revolutionary phase | attempted reforms by royal authority: resistance especially by nobles --> Estates-General 1789 | ||
1789
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Estates General/National Assembly |
Estates-General --> National (Constituent) Assembly (dominated
by old Third Estate) Political revolution led by bourgeois, backed against king by urban revolution (especially people of Paris) Peasant revolution --> end of "feudalism" |
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1789 - 91 | Moderate revolution | National/Constituent Assembly reforms government of France | |||
1791 - 92 | Constitutional monarchy | constitutional monarchy under new system; King + Legislative Assembly | |||
First Republic | 1792 | Overthrow of monarchy | king overthrown in Paris; republic established (king executed, 1793) | ||
1792 - 95 | Convention | radical phase, ideas of democracy; in latter period Terror | |||
1795 - 99 | Directory | attempt to stabilize, oligarchical | |||
1799 - 1804 | Consulate | Dictatorship; Napoleon Bonaparte = First Consul | |||
First Empire | 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte makes himself Emperor | Napoleon establishes authoritarian state with hereditary monarchy | ||
1804 - 1814 | First Empire | ||||
Restoration and Hundred Days period | 1814 | Bourbon Restoration | Napoleon defeated in war; goes into exile in Elba; Bourbon Kings restored | ||
1815 | Hundred Days | Napoleon returns; defeated again; exiled to St Helena; Bourbons restored again |
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