3 September (Thurs) | The Liberal French Revolution
Section outline
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What led to the calling of the estates general? Why was it significant? What were their demands? What did they want? Carefully attend to the way the term “nation” is used in these texts. How do each of the authors below define it similarly or differently?
What were the Cahiers des doléances? What did the various actors involved in the early stages of the French Revolution want? To what extent were their goals and aspirations similar and different?
While everyone should read all of the primary sources, group one will be responsible for closely reading and analyzing sources #1 and #2; group two, sources #3 and #4.
Group One: Alondra, Emma, Stella, Audrey, Jonathan, and Sydney
Group Two: Paulina, Lauren, Eleanor, Ben, and Mimi
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Tyler Stovall, Transnational France: The History of a Universal Nation (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2015), pp. 13-30.
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This is the same document as the stoval listed above, but it is rendered in plain text .pdf for anyone who prefer this format.
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Jacques–Benigne Bossuet, “The Nature and Properties of Royal Authority” (1709), https://revolution.chnm.org/d/234.
Group One: Alondra, Emma, Stella, Audrey, Jonathan, and Sydney
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Abbé Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (Jan 1789), https://revolution.chnm.org/d/280
See the link for a digital version and the document for a .pdf.
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Document#1 “Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King” (Jan 1789), Women in Revolutionary Paris (1979), 18-21.
Group Two: Paulina, Lauren, Eleanor, Ben, and Mimi
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Primary Source#4 “Grievances of the Merchant Flower Sellers” (1789), Women in Revolutionary Paris (1979), pp. 22-26.
Group Two: Paulina, Lauren, Eleanor, Ben, and Mimi
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