The End of the Reign of Terror

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The End of the Reign of Terror
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Do-Now

• Is the execution of Louis the XVI or Robespierre
  consistent with Enlightenment ideas? Why or why
  not?
• Aim How did Napoleon rise to power?

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The End of the Reign of Terror

• Why did the Reign of Terror finally end?
• People grew tired of violence
• Committee on Public Safety
• Keep the peace.
• French economy was suffering due to expenses of
  war.
• People felt unsafe.
• 40,000 people killed during the reign
• Peasants made up a majority of killed.

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What replaced it?

• The Directory
• Third government body since the Bastille fell.
• The Council of safety
• 5 member council
• Also had a bicameral legislature led by property
  owning males (voting rights limited to property
  owning males).
• Moderate approach.
• Radicalization begins as a result of food
  shortages, economics problems, continuing war
  with Austria
• Royalists and Jacobins

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Why did Napolean help lead a Coup against the
Directory?

• Social the need to develop an identity that
  includes everyone.
• Political No stable govt for over 10 years.
• Economic continued poverty, food shortages,
  debt, war.

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Who was Napolean?
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Napoleons Diary

1. What does Napoleon mean when he says, Paris has
   a short memory on 1/1/1798?
2. On 1/29/98, Napleon says, the Orient awaits a
   man! What does that mean and what does that say
   about Bonapartes self-image.
3. What do you think happens around 1817 that
   changes the nature of Napoleons entries?
4. Based on these entries, who was Napoleon?

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Homework

• Read Chapter 19, section 4 and take Cornell
  Notes.