What were the main causes of the French Revolution?

What were the main causes of the French Revolution?

Socio-Economic Data, 1789

The French Urban Poor

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

% of Income Spent on Bread

1787

1788

What made conditions right for revolution?

• Urban Commoner’sBudget:– Food 80%– Rent 25%– Tithe 10%– Taxes 35%– Clothing 20%– TOTAL 170%

• King’s Budget:– Interest 50%– Army 25%– Versailles

25%– Coronation

10%– Loans 25%– Admin. 25%– TOTAL 160%

Financial Problemsin France, 1789

The French Monarchy:1775 - 1793

Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI

The Necklace Scandal

Y Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan

Y The Countess de LaMotte

1,600,000 livres

[$100 million today]

Let Them Eat Cake!

Y Marie Antoinette NEVER said that!

Y “Madame Deficit”

Y “The Austrian Whore”

Where is the tax money?

Why do some historians credit the Enlightenment with bringing about the

French Revolution?

Convening the Estates General May, 1789

Last time it was called into session was 1614!

Commoners3rd Estate

Aristocracy2nd Estate

Clergy1st Estate

The Suggested Voting Pattern:Voting by Estates

1

1

1

Commoners3rd Estate

Aristocracy2nd Estate

Clergy1st Estate

The Number of Representativesin the Estates General: Vote by Head!

300

300

648

“The Tennis Court Oath”

by Jacques Louis David

June 20, 1789

Storming the Bastille,July 14, 1789

The Great Fear:Peasant Revolt

July 20, 1789

March of the Women,October 5-6, 1789

We want the baker, the baker’s wife and the baker’s boy!

The Tricolor (1789)

The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of

Paris.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man

August 26, 1789

How did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette respond to the

needs of the poor in France?

What influence did Jean Paul Marat have on the

revolution?

How did the French Revolution change

France?