24.3 Revolution and Reform in France

24.3 Revolution and Reform in France

Change is Coming...!Napoleon - Waterloo -

Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna restores Louis XVIII to throne

Louis XVIII tried to find balance b/w liberals and conservative reactionaries

Change is Coming...!Louis XVIII dies

his brother Charles X becomes king

I hate liberals - I’m abolishing liberal reforms!I’m taxing everyone to pay backthe nobles who lost so much in the French Revolution!

1830 people revolt - again

Change is Coming...!

Louis Phillipe - elected king

“citizen king”

1830 people revolt - again

Change is Coming...!Louis Phillipe elected king

More people now allowed to vote

Still landowners hold most of the power

workers not allowed to organize

labor unions not allowed

Change is Coming...!

Louis Phillipe elected king

He is hated

food shortages in 1848

he restricts freedom of speech

Revolution of 1848so that makes a revolution of 1789 revolution of 1830 and revolution of 1848

Revolution of 1848 - what happenedLouis Napoleon leaves for England people of France establish the Second

Republic (when was the first?)

Socialism is born!1. gov’t created national workshops to give people work (1st attempt of any gov’t to relieve unemployment)2. all men in France could now vote3.but revolts...conservatives kill the national workshops...socialists (incl. Karl Marx) run out of France

Revolution of 1848 - The Resultnew constitution of France makes

republican form of gov’t - 2nd Republic People elect Louis- Napoleon or Napoleon III

He changes constitution so he can rule France. This is known as a ______ d’ ______.

His goal - rule France like his uncle Bonaparte did!

Napoleon IIISeemed like the Second Republic was

operating fairly but it was not. It was really the Second French Empire

people lost their rights no freedom of the press no political opposition allowed

This is known as a/an _____________________ regime

Napoleon IIIhe did do France some good - he

modernized railroads manufacturing some public works (roads, etc)

Napoleon IIICrimean War

France, Great Britain, and Ottoman Empire

vs. Russia

France wins glory (but not much else)

Field HospitalsFlorence Nightingaleprofessional nursing

Napoleon IIIFRench imperialism in the world 1. Algeria (in North Africa) - soon controlled by France 2. Suez Canal ( In Egypt) begun by France 3. Cambodia controlled by France

Napoleon IIIFranco - Prussian War

Tricked or set up by Otto von Bismark of Prussia, France declares war on Prussia/Germany

Prussia stomps France due to military might

1871 - France controlled by Prussia

France Under GermanyTreaty of Frankfurt France gives up Alsac lorraine to Germany France pays large fines to Germany even within France there were arguments

about accepting this treaty Communards didn’t want it - they wanted to

keep fighting French who wanted peace with Germany

fought Communards Result: 20,000 killed and peace with

Germanyand you wanted to know why the French and Germans dislike each other so and why they fought each other in 1914...

Third RepublicThird Republic of France - 1875

Under Third Republic constitution then president elected by legislature legislature made up of Senate and Chamber

of Deputies this constitution lasts 70+ years

Third RepublicStill there are issues... should France prepare military in case

Germany attacks again? should France weaken the powers of the

Catholic Church? what to do about those extremists who

oppose all gov’t = anarchists

scandals - Alfred Dreyfus in 1894 accussed of selling military secrets to Germany

he was cleared but army covered up the truth

so how does this set up France just before World War I?