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- Gandpa, how did France become such a good country?
- France wasn't always like it is today. Let me tell you the story.......
- In the 1789 the poor people of France suffer. They have bad crops and the price of bread doubles. The countryside if filled with beggars
- We poor people of France have no food
- Influence of the Enlighenment and the success of the American Revolution begin to spread to the poor peasants and miiddle class of France
- We pay all our taxes to our King. But still we live a poor life under his rule
- The Engligntment
- Read ,family, the words of Voltaire. A new way of life is possible.
- Meanwhile, In a castle, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette enjoy their rich lifestyle
- Peasant girl, go fetch me my finest French Silk dress
- What a great hunt I had today. Tonight we will have a big Feast
- People of France, I call for a meeting of the Estates General to solve our financial trouble
- France is in financial debt. King Louis XVI calls the Estates General to meet in Versailles for the first time in 175 years
- We represent the 3 Estates. The Clergy, the Artisocrates, and the Ordinary People
- I represent the Clergy, we are the First Estate and we pay 2% of the taxes. We support our King
- I represent the Third Estate, and we pay 97% of the taxes. We are bankers, merchants and ordinary people. We do not have a far vote in the Estates General
- I represent the Arisotcrates. We are the Second Estate and we pay NO taxes. We support our king
- Equal Rights
- The people of France are upset that they will never have equal reprentation in the Estates General. The meet seperately and vow, called the Tennis Court Oath, to create a new constitution
- Common People of France- We will become the National Assembly. Today we vow to create a nation of individual citizens and not a kingdom of subjects.
- Forget the Monarchy
- The People of France take over the Bastille Armory July 14 1789. The French Revolution offically begins
- Freedom and power for all the people of France
- BASTILLE
- We will take this royal fortress and destroy the royal power
- In August 1789, The 3rd Estate drafts new constitiution called The "Deeclaration of Man and of the Citizen"
- This document gives all men equality and a government for the people that protects the rights of the people
- End the Monarcy
- In 1793, King Louis is Beheaded and the monarcy is replaced with a republic
- Today is the fall of the Monarchy. King Louis XVI. We sentence you to death by Guillotine
- No more taxes
- Kill the King
- The French Revolution goes on for 5 years. The Reign of Terror finally ends In 1791 with the Rise in power of the French General Napoleon Bonaparte
- Go France!!
- People of France. I am Napoleon and I am here to lead this new republic and put an end to the Revolution.
- Long live Napoleon
- So you see son, France came a long way so all it's citizens could have freedoms and rights.
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