Estates General
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates General.
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The revolutionary year produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising, Declaration of Rights and October march on Versailles.
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on Versailles.
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Marie-Antoinette opposed the summoning of the Estates General.
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Opposes the summoning of the Estates General
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Appointed Member of Estates General
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Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre was appointed Member of Estates General.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Benevente was elected to the Estates General, represents the clergy, the First Estate.
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Elected to the Estates General, represents the clergy, the First Estate
Fall of administrative immunity
The violent fate of Bertier de Sauvigny demonstrated that high office no longer guaranteed personal security during the Revolution.
Fears of aristocratic plots
Rumors of a royal or aristocratic conspiracy aggravated suspicions surrounding Bertier de Sauvigny and other senior administrators.
Feudalism
Forces Louis to oppose the abolition of feudalism & the restricting of Royal powers
Feudalism
Forces Louis to oppose the abolition of feudalism and the restricting of Royal powers.
Flanders Regiment Arrives for Royal Court Duty
The royal court received the Flanders Regiment during mounting tensions over food and authority. Its presence alarmed revolutionaries who feared a military reaction.
Food conspiracy rumors
Stories about hoarded grain or contrived scarcity circulated among Parisians and helped turn anger against Bertier de Sauvigny into personal danger.
Food shortages before Bastille
Bread scarcity helped generate the revolutionary atmosphere in which officials such as Bertier de Sauvigny became targets of popular anger.
Foulon denounced by crowd
The hostility toward Bertier de Sauvigny's father-in-law Foulon reveals how accusations about royal repression and hunger became personal in July 1789.
Foulon killed earlier that day
On 22 July crowds killed Joseph-François Foulon before the death of his son-in-law Bertier de Sauvigny later the same day.
Foulon's financial appointment
Foulon's association with the reshuffled royal administration intensified public suspicion of the family network to which Bertier de Sauvigny belonged.
Foulon's head displayed
Contemporary revolutionary imagery shows the captive Bertier de Sauvigny confronted with the severed head of his father-in-law Foulon.
Hôtel de Ville historical location
The place where Bertier de Sauvigny was killed corresponds to the present-day Hôtel de Ville square in Paris.
Iconography of Place de Grève
Representations of Bertier de Sauvigny's lynching situate the violence in a public square associated with municipal authority.
Iconography of Saint-Martin arrival
Depictions of Bertier de Sauvigny's arrival at the Saint-Martin Gate preserve the humiliation imposed on him before his death.
Intendants viewed as royal agents
Bertier de Sauvigny symbolized the centralized royal administration that many revolutionaries associated with privilege and arbitrary power.
Invitation to Clergy and Nobles
Sieyes encouraged the commons to invite other orders into joint deliberation, using openness to strengthen the claim that deputies represented one nation.
Jacobin Club
Among its early members were the dominating Mirabeau, Parisian deputy Abbe Sieyes, Dauphine deputy Antoine Barnave, Jerome Petion, the Abbe Gregoire, Charles Lameth, Alexandre Lameth, Robespierre, the duc dAiguillon, and La Revelliere-Lepeaux
Journey to Hôtel de Ville area
Bertier de Sauvigny was brought to the center of municipal Paris amid demands that alleged enemies of the people be punished.
July subsistence panic culmination
The killing of Bertier de Sauvigny marked a violent culmination of fears about bread, royal troops and supposed conspiracies in the capital.
La France Libre attacks royal absolutism
Desmoulins published La France Libre during the first summer of the Revolution. The pamphlet argued for political freedom and attacked institutions associated with arbitrary royal government.
Last days of intendant authority
Bertier de Sauvigny's arrest and murder signaled the vulnerability of the monarchy's regional administrative system after the July uprising.
Legacy of the Flour War
The memory of Bertier de Sauvigny's repression of grain protests in 1775 formed part of the background to hostility against him in 1789.
Legal Unity Against Provincial Privilege
Sieyes favored replacing a fragmented system of historical jurisdictions with uniform institutions, a principle reflected in plans for the departmental structure.
Lynching on 22 July
Bertier de Sauvigny was lynched by a Paris crowd on 22 July 1789 in the revolutionary upheaval after the Bastille's fall.
Militia units organized by Paris districts
Lafayette oversaw the development of neighborhood-based National Guard formations. Their recruitment and chain of command linked the revolutionary city's districts to an armed civic institution.
Modern Chemical Nomenclature
Helps establish modern terminology and quantitative chemical practice.
Motion on National Representation
His proposed approach to national representation helped the deputies move from contested credentials toward a new assembly independent of separate estate voting.
Municipal authorities coordinate a citizen militia
The new city government cooperated with Lafayette in organizing armed citizens into a National Guard. This force was expected to protect property and public order while recognizing revolutionary change.
Municipal Committee Confronts Food Shortages
Bailly's municipal administration received complaints about bread supplies and attempted to regulate provisioning amid shortages. Food security became a principal test of the new city's political legitimacy.
Municipal government escorts the monarch into Paris
When Louis XVI visited Paris in July, municipal officials received him under the authority of the new civic administration. The reception publicly demonstrated the monarchy's dependence on cooperation with the capital.
National Assembly
Appointed Leader of the 3rd Estate in the National Assembly
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