The Terror Reign

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The Terror Reign

• Maximilian Robespierre
• Committee of Public Safety
• Getting rid of the old regime
• Radical
• Went from one extreme to another
• Increase in reason and logic
• National Convention. July 28th, 1794
• Fall of Robespierre

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A State Controlled Church

• The National Assembly took over the Church lands
  and declared that church officials and priests
  were to be elected by property owners and paid as
  state officials
• Did this in order to pay off Frances debt.
  Instead of taxing the bourgeoisie they sold the
  church lands.
• Alarmed and offended many of devout French
  peasants because they believed that the pope
  should rule over the church independent of the
  state.

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New Constitution

• French Constitution adopted in September 1791
• Stripped king of much of his authority
• Gave Legislative Assembly power to create French
  law
• Legislative Assembly in three groups
• Radicals
• Moderates
• Conservatives

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen

• One political reform that resulted from the
  French Revolution was the Declaration of the
  Rights of Man and of the Citizen, or as it was
  later called, the Declaration of the Rights of
  Man. 
• The influence of the Enlightenment, the
  Declaration of Independence and the French
  Revolution led to its writing.  This document
  stated that all men were created and born equal
  and free in rights. 
• Another statement in this declaration was that
  the aim of all political association is the
  preservation of the natural rights of man.
• These rights are liberty, property, security and
  resistance to oppression.  Because of this
  strong statement, the slogan Liberty, Equality
  and Fraternity was adopted. 
• However, this did not apply to women, even though
  Olympe de Gouges wrote a declaration for the
  rights of women.  These ideas were too quickly
  rejected and Olympe was decapitated because he
  was seen as an enemy.  

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