 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The French Revolution
Learning ObjectivesChapter 9 teaches students about:
| How the old regime was replaced by modern society during the French Revolution. |
| | | | The Three Estates of the old regime, and the thwarted ambitions of both peasants and urban dwellers in prerevolutionary France. |
| | | | The tensions between the Third Estate, the nobility, and the king. |
| | | | The founding and initial reforms of the National Assembly or Constituent Assembly, which favored the middle classes. |
| | | | The formation of a revolutionary culture and the role of popular participation in the revolution. |
| | | | The gradual involvement of other European powers in a war with France and the impact of war on the revolution. |
| | | | The influence of various factions within the revolution, such as the Girondins, the sans-culottes, and others. |
| | | | The National Convention, the execution of the king, and the commencement of the Terror. |
| | | | The Committee on Public Safety, which operated as a joint dictatorship or war cabinet. |
| | | | The relations of the revolutionary governments with the church and the process of dechristianization. |
| | | | The first French Republic, the Directory, and the narrowness of its social base. |
| | | | Napoleon Bonaparte's spectacular rise to power. |
| | | | Napoleon's enlightened despotism and the restoration of order and peace at home and abroad. |
| | | | The emergence of a modern state under Napoleon, which combined aspects of the revolution and the old regime. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education