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Legislative Assembly and the Girondin Convention in France. The Legislative Assembly was the governing body of France that replaced the National Constituent Assembly, which had approved the Constitution. 00:00:25

The Legislative Assembly governated between October 1791 and September 1792. 00:00:42

2. Constituent Assembly and Legislative Assembly. It had constitutional monarchy. The monarchy 00:00:56

was abolished and France became a republic. It had separation of powers. These three came 00:01:09

from the Constitution of 1971. It appears the Girondins that represented wealthy people 00:01:17

and the Jacobins that represented petite bourgeoisie. Girondins supported constitutional monarchy 00:01:25

and limited male suffrage. Jacobins, they wanted to abolish monarchy and introduce universal 00:01:31

manhood suffrage. It had limited male suffrage. It abolished feudal privileges and tithes to the 00:01:35

clergy. It had equality in the payment of taxes. It confiscated and sold clergy properties. 00:01:52

Jacobins, Sansculots and Girondins. Girondins was the name given to a political party during 00:02:03

French Revolution. It was composed of different deputies of Gironda. They were all mostly from the 00:02:19

bourgeoisie. They first emerged as harsh critics of the court. They were anti-revolutionary priests 00:02:30

and against emigres. They supported foreign wars as a means to unite people behind the cause of 00:02:42

the revolution jacobins it was formed in 1789 by the british deputies to the state general 00:02:51

they were against the monarchy and they wanted to abolish it after the revolutionary assembly moved 00:03:26

to paris they were reconstituted as the society of friends of the constitution they became 00:03:34

identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence which lead the revolutionary government 00:04:00

from mid 1793 to mid 1794 sans culottes they were commonly people from the lower class 00:04:05

in the late 18th century their name is due to their clothing and through that to their lower class 00:04:22

culottes were the fashionable silk knee breeches of the 18th century 00:04:33

nobility and bourgeois, and the working-class sans-culottes wore pantalons or trousers instead. 00:04:37

They were against the rich. Sans-culottes believed in the ideology that all men were equal. 00:04:47

Ideally, each citizen would own a piece of property such as farm or shop and no one would 00:04:53

control large enterprises or states. They called for a radical republic based on direct democracy. 00:05:00

and they also wanted to put a tax on the rich people. 00:05:14

The French constitution is approved in 1791. 00:05:27

France happens to be a constitutional monarchy. 00:05:31

This means that the sovereignty resides in the nation and not in the king. 00:05:37

The king, Louis XVI, does not have another option but accept the constitution, 00:05:42

but it starts a plan to recover his power. 00:06:04

The king and the queen try to escape of France during the night, but they are discovered and couched. 00:06:07

France declares the war to Austria and Prussia. 00:06:13

During this war, they created a new parliament, called National Convention. 00:06:38

The new chosen parliament decides to proclaim the republic, 00:06:43

and they condemn Louis XVI and his wife Maria Antonieta to the guillotine for betrayal. 00:06:48

Battles of the Revolution 00:07:31

In Europe, during the 1791 and 1782, due to the overthrow of Louis XVI and his later execution, 00:07:33

different European monarchs flew with the species to France. 00:07:41

This caused that countries tend to unite each other in order to stop the fervor growing in France. 00:07:45

The words, said by Jacques Rousseau, is surely a wish to his enemy, 00:07:52

but they are not going to cut your throat and going to free you from the yoke under which you live. 00:07:56

This, with the death of Plebo the Circle, made war called the law. 00:08:00

On April 20, the Legislative Assembly stayed at home, the war with Austria and Prussia, 00:08:06

and thought about three different commanders to lead the army. 00:08:14

These commanders were, first, Lafayette, Roquembourg, and Le Bré, that led an army that was in 00:08:23

a partless state due to the revolution that happened before. 00:08:34

On May, due to the bad army and the bad strategy, the Battle of Belgium ended in disaster, which 00:08:42

made French troops martyr their own generals and left Belgium, leaving Austrian and Prussian 00:08:53

troops in the doors of Paris. 00:09:00

On July 25th, the Duke of Brunswick issued his famous provocative manifesto, written 00:09:13

in Paris. Then, four weeks later, after the four weeks that passed, the alleys led by 00:09:19

the Duke of Brunswick breached France. They crossed the borders, overrun Longueuil and 00:09:38

Verdun. These streets caused the yawn of August 12th and the massacre of prisoners in September. 00:09:45

As Paris looked lost, Dumouriez instigated an effective manoeuvre which slowed the army. 00:09:55

It consisted on the Austro-Prussian army leading Balmy and the French troops will flank them. 00:10:04

This ended in the Battle of Balmy, which resulted in a perfect win for France. 00:10:13

The painting of M.A. Jean-August Belmette commemorates the winning of the French Symphony, which was a turning point for French forces and was one of the most important victories in French history. 00:10:22