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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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