Especially the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

cut Revolution/ snoozeic Era WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT * national contribution Assembly, the new assembly not only set to work displace up Frances first constitution, but engineered a wholesale conversion of French political and social structures that went far beyond anything most of them had put across in their grievance lists. * During theFrench Revolution, theLegislative Assemblywas the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792.It provided the focus of political debate and mutationary law-ma force between the periods of theNational Constituent Assemblyand of theNational Convention. * The Legislative Assembly was driven by two opposing groups. The members of the first group were primarily moderate members of the bourgeoisie that favored aconstitutional monarchy, represented by theFeuillants, who felt that the revolution had already achieved its goal. 1The second group was the democratic faction, for whom thekingcould no wickednesslong be trusted, represe nted by thenewmembers of theJacobin club. 2This group claimed that more ultra measures were necessary. * the citizens of Varennes had been asked to elect their own municipal and regional governments and to participate directly in the day-to-day implementation of new laws * Louis XVI fleeing the very constitution he had sworn to defend * Appearance of soldiers in Varennes had led to enormous tensions. We have a go at it that this action was part of the general movement of troops intended to encourage the kings escape, a conspiracy in which Bouille was intimately involved. The kings flight had dangerous conspiracies involving foreign soldiers and perhaps foreign armies * The night the king suddenly appeared in a small town in northeastern France is arguable one of the most dramatic and poignant moments in the entire French Revolution. * Local inhabitants=reshape their lives * Louis most pervasive adjoin on the train of events probably came less from what he did than from what did not do from his very lack of leadership, his indecision and inconsistency WATERLOO JUNE 18, 1815 The errors made by Napoleon and other French commanders during the Waterloo campaign were severe, indeed perhaps even fateful * His own destiny was almost more important to Napoleon than the thousandsand at last millionsof lives that were lost in the course of his pursuit of it * Hundred Days (stage four) French REVOLUTION APP * Directory, a body of five directors that held executive power in France