Unit8EdmundBurke.pptVIP

Unit VIII Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution In France Contents Part I Pre-test as Lead-in Part II Background Information Part III Text Study Part IV Aftermath Significance Part V Questions as Feed-back Pre-test as Lead-in The French Revolution began in ________ with the meeting of the States General in May. On July 14 of that same year, _____ was stormed: in October, and the Royal Family were removed from Versailles to Paris. The King attempted, unsuccessfully, to flee Paris for _______ in June 1791. ________________ sat from October 1791 until September 1792, when, in the face of the advance of the allied armies of Austria, Holland, Prussia, and Sardinia, it was replaced by the National Convention, which proclaimed ___________. The King was brought to trial in December of 1792, and ___________ on January 21, 1793. In January of 1793 the revolutionary government declared war on _________, a war for world dominion which had been carried on, with short intermissions, since the beginning of the reign of William and Mary, and which would continue for another twenty-two years. After the fall of _____________________, the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795 and held power until ______, when it was replaced by the Consulate under _____________. Thinkers, like the conservative Edmund Burke, maintained that the Revolution was the product of a few conspiratorial individuals who brainwashed ________ into subverting the old order—a claim rooted in the belief that the revolutionaries had no __________ complaints. In its early stages it portrayed itself as a triumph of the forces of reason over those of superstition and privilege, and as such it was welcomed by English radicals like Thomas Paine and William Blake, who saw it as a symbolic act which presaged the return of _________ to the state of perfection from which it had fallen away. Some saw the French revolution, with its declared emphasis on Liberty, Equality, and Frate