Previously, in the French Revolution…

Economic/Tax & Social Policies• Abolished all seigneurial (feudal) privileges

• Fees, rents, & dues owed nobles; HEART of peasant discontent AND noble wealth

• Removed different tax privileges from towns/regions universal tax

• Ended sale of state and church offices

• Ended tithe

• Ended gov’t pensions for nobles• Year later, abolished nobility

• Created new paper currency, the assignat, backed by assets seized from churches

Vive le roi. Vive la Nation

Yawn…not my problem

Yes! A weaker France!

Foreign Reaction

A turning point….

émigré, any of the Frenchmen, mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. This position received a boost from the king’s attempted flight. From exile in other countries, most émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help restoring the old regime. The Revolutionary leaders in France, fearful of their activity, took action against them: émigrés who did not return by January 1792 were liable to death as traitors; in the same year their property was confiscated by the state.

Describe the significance of the émigré in the early French Revolution, both domestically and internationally

War of the First Coalition

The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. It was a measure intended to intimidate Paris, but in fact spurred on support for the revolutionary government.

Why did the Brunswick Manifesto have the opposite effect it intended?What is the PoV of the above cartoonist?

Storming of the Tuileries