French Revolution

• Acts of De-Christianzation across Europe by the French
• National Conference split between Geronimo and Jacobin
• Jacobin said that anyone against them was anti-revolutionary
• Another party starts to develop called the Mountain
• They listen to the ordinary people
• The working class demands control on money
• The Mountain elected Robes Pierre as their leader
• Maximilian Robes Pierre
• Became a lawyer
• Did not believe in capital punishment
• France
• 18th Cebtury, divided into 3 estates
• 1st Estate-Clergy (was close with the church, didn't have to pay for land)
• Hostility between the parish priests and the priests in the nobility
• 2nd Estate- Nobility
• 2% of the population
• Owned 25% of the land
• National Convention appoints the Committee of Public Safety
• Made up of 12 individuals that would run the government
• Robes Pierre was one of the 12
• It was originally formed to protect the people, but they turned into oppressors
• Made it illegal for women to gather
• In July 1794 rebels and conservatives turned against Robes Pierre, he was executed, and the Committee was the disbanded 
• Thermodorians wrote a 3rd French Constitution which went into effect in 1795
• Allowed males to vote for electors that would choose the leaders
• Napoleon Bonaparte 
• He drives out the Hapsburgs
• Sets up a new government 
• 1797- France has an election
• The majority leaders wanted to bring back the exiled Louis
• Napoleon wants to send a force against the royalists in the French government 
• They abandon the election