French Revolution (bilingual)

Im Rahmen der schrittweisen Veröffentlichung der Materialien von Dr. Jan Kulok aus Stuttgart erscheint hier ein zweites Unterrichtsmodul zur Französischen Revolution/French Revolution. Wie im ersten bilingualen Modul zur Amerikanischen Revolution gehen auch hier knowledge categories und skills priorities sowie eine Vokabelliste voraus. Das Modul geht chronologisch vor und deckt den Zeitraum des Ancien Régime bis zum Wiener Kongress ab. Selbstverständlich ersetzen diese Materialien nicht das Lehrbuch, sondern sind begleitend gedacht.

The Tennis Court Oath, Jacques-Louis David, 1791
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Topic 2: The French Revolution

• Knowledge categories: liberty, revolution, constitution, conservative, liberal, Jacobin, right-wing / left-wing, terror, Empire, reforms
• Skills priorities: working with pictures II, working with text documents II, working with maps II
• Vocabulary File
  Die fettgedruckten Wörter können hierbei den Lernwortschatz darstellen.

Topics of the Unit

1. France under the Ancien Régime
2. The Three Estates, their Calls for Reform, and the Revolution
3. The Constitution of 1791
4. Revolutionary War and the Reign of Terror
5. Napoleon’s Empire
6. The Congress of Vienna

Topics of the Unit

• The important Dates of the French Revolution 1789 – 1804 (1815)

1. France under the Ancien Régime

• The Ancien Régime (Introduction)
• Ancien Régime: Problems
• The Ancien Régime - The Three Estates

Louis XVI, King of France, Antoine-François Callet, 1781
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2. The Three Estates, their Calls for Reform, and the Revolution

• Abbé Sieyès: The Three Estates
• The Tennis Court Oath
• The Outbreak of the Revolution
• Outbreak of The Revolution (students’ table)
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• Assignat
• How revolutionary were these revolutionary events?

Assignat
Wikimedia Commons: Design - Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux - Lettering - Jean-Baptiste Gérard

3. The Situation of 1791

• Changes in 1791
• The Constitution of 1791
• France in 1789 and in 1791 – administrative changes
• The French Constitution of 1791 - the realisation of the dreams of 1789?
• The political groupings in the French National Assemblies

The Guillotine during the French Revolution, late 18th century
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4. Revolutionary War and the Reign of Terror

• Trial and error? – the trial of Louis XVI
• The trial of Louis XVI
• The Problems of France in 1793
• The Counter-Revolution
• The Reign of Terror
• Phrases for the Judge

The badge of the royalist Vendée insurgents
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5. Napoleon’s Empire

• Napoleon and the Battle of Austerlitz
• The Battle of Trafalgar
• The principles of Napoleon’s imperial rule
• Napoleon’s Coronation
• Napoleonic Europe 1812
• Napoleon’s Campaign in Russia
• Napoleon and the re-ordering of Germany
• The Rise and Decline of Napoleon Bonaparte

The Coronation of Napoleon, Jacques-Louis David, 1805-08
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6. The Congress of Vienna:
to be re-enacted out by the students as representatives of Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, and Russia.

• The demands of the great powers present at the congress
• The Congress of Vienna
• Europe after the Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1819
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End-of-topic tasks

• List the problems of the Ancien Régime.
• List the phases of the French Revolution.
• Compare the French constitution of 1791 with the US-American constitution.
• Explain why Napoleon was so important for France / for Germany.

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