zoom session: The French Revolution

7 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The French Revolution. 

^{The political and social structure in France: the three orders [états] -  clergy, nobility [1ier et 2nd états]; and the people (3ième état) and the absence of the latter's political representation.}  

^{The poor conditions of the labouring classes due to bad agricultural years and an unbalanced fiscal system.}

^{The failure of fiscal reforms in consequence of the political hierarchical distrivution of power.} 

^{The gap between the royal house and the people as illustrated by the palace of Versailles.}

^{The break of the conflict. the storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789 as a symbolicand down-to-earth manoeuvre: the surge of the "sans cullotes" to take the weaponry and the liberation of the political prisoners..} 

^{The motto of the Revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity.}

^{The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789: analysis of some of its most significant articles.}

^{The establishment of the New Régime.}

The struggle for power: Jacobines and Girondines, The period of Terror and the rise of Napoleon's absolutist rule.

^{Paine's praise of the Revolution in}  Rights of Man . The emphasis on natural and social rights and the importance of the constitution as the basis of a legitmate and representaive government,