Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Notes 2/9- france again

  • People of France were called citizens for the first time, and people were invested in their government
  • in paris, the national assembly, now called the national convention was split between to parties. 
    • First party: Giorndines 
    • Second party: Jacobins
      • Check notes form yesterday
      • The party that basically wrote and forced through the french constitution and said that anyone against the jacobins anti-revolutionary. 
    • another new party, mountains:
      • The folks who are really listening to the people on the street and the working class
  • january, 1793, louis XVI is found to be secretely talking to the king of austria, and he is not king now anymore
  • Thermidorians rise up
    • wrote a third french constitution (the second was written and then discarded)
      • Goes into effect 1795
  • France has an election in 1797

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