Date: Saturday, 26 August 2017

Goal: What is French revolution? What happened during that time? (Actually, I have already
studied in my previous school, but I forgot most parts of it.)
Notes:
it began in 1789 and ended in late 1790s
It is the problem that the middle classes wanted power
Europeans were divided into Clergies, nobilities, Commoners and King.
Economics crisis in France make the king increased taxes to the commoners
The French Revolution is based on financial issue, because France has a war with England for 7
years, and the money was spent a lot in the war.
Louis XVI was not strong enough, and doesnt have absolute power.
Changed from agricultural estate to the industrial estate, and that makes the cost of food
drastically rise.

People were divided into three estates: first, second, and third. The first and second estate
doesnt have to pay any taxes, and all of the responsibility was taken by the third estate.
References:
History.com Staff. (2009). French Revolution. From http://www.history.com/topics/french-
revolution
N. (2013, July 11). The French Revolution -In a Nutshell. From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo
McClintock, J. (2014, January 16). Social Classes during the French Revolution. From
https://prezi.com/3-jhrwva83y3/social-classes-during-the-french-revolution/
Reflection: The most information I got is in the Video, and I think I did well taking notes from it.
The video really gives me the brief information about the French Revolution, but it is not clear
yet. I had a plan to study more about this either tomorrow, because I didnt finish French
revolution yet.

Date: Monday, 28 August 2017

Goal: to discuss what I have with my groupmates. Also, finish the research about the French
revolution.
Notes:
14th July 1789, people stormed the Bastille fortress end of monarchy and became
constitution the day became French Independence Day
Nobles lost their power; the commoners, farmers, and the merchants gain power.
The king was beheaded in January 21st (Louis XVI)
People fight each other for power.
Lead into both external wars and internal wars
The new ruler was Maximillian, who was super crazy. He kills everyone that he thinks they will
kill him.
Guillotine was used very, very often (often means every single day)
People are not satisfied with his acts, and Maximillian was killed by 1794, by his own guillotine.
The French revolution was ended in 1799, by Napoleon Bonaparte became the consul of
France.
Napoleon succeeded in leading military campaigns

He replaced the government system

Reflection: The research of all of us are quite similar, and the good thing is everyone
understands the concept pretty well. I clearly understand the French Revolution. Im planning

References: French Revolution 1789. (2017, August 04). From

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlH2QkwZsY
History.com Staff. (2009). French Revolution. From http://www.history.com/topics/french-
revolution
N. (2013, July 11). The French Revolution -In a Nutshell. From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo
McClintock, J. (2014, January 16). Social Classes during the French Revolution. From
https://prezi.com/3-jhrwva83y3/social-classes-during-the-french-revolution/
Date: Tuesday, 29 August 2017 (in class)
Goal: to work on the product, the introduction part.
Notes: -
Reflection: there is no detail in the story that I wrote yet because it is only the introduction
part. I did the introduction of one main character in the story, and it went quite well.
Date: Thursday, 7 September 2017 (after school, at home)
Goal: to learn the French Revolution deeply.
Notes: Firstly, France has a war with England for 7 years. War needs money for supplies and
weapons, so the government collect taxes from the commoners. The male commoners at that
time has to support the army if they are old enough, so that means that the commoners family
has less money because the money maker of the house has to go to join the army. Also, they
have a chance to die in the war (imagine when you are a commoner at that time, and your
father has to go join the army. When a man sent from the king knocks your door, there are two
situations. He either asks for tax, or he came to say that Your dad is dead. He sucks at
fighting). This does not satisfy the commoners at all. One day, the commoners cant stand the
government anymore, and they gathered to revolt. They started by plundering the weapon at
the training plains at the army, but the army just concedes and let them take the weapon,
because people in the army are also the commoners, so they understand each others feelings.
Unfortunately, they only take guns, but there is no gunpowder or bullets at all, because it is just
for training. Then, they heard that the Bastille prison has lots of gunpowder and bullets stored
in it, and there is only a few guards in it, so they go attack there next. When they started to
attack the bastille prison, the guards in front of them talked to them nicely, but that is just for
stalling time because firstly, they dont know what to do whether give the prison up or defend
the prison. Secondly, they dont know how serious the commoners are to take the prison. It
turned out that they decided to defend the fortress, so the commoners attacked them. There
were many losses, but they got the bastille prison, gunpowder and the bullets they wanted.
After that, King Louis XVI called for a public meeting. There are about 10,000 first estates, and
about 300 of them came. There are about 400,000 of the second estate, and about 250 of them
came. The worst part is there are more than 25 million third estates, and there were ONLY 580
of them that are allowed to come, and that ratio is too unfair. The thing that the commoners
want is to change the governing system from monarchy to monarchy, but under constitution.
Everyone should have one center law, including everyone has to pay tax. Unfortunately, the
idea was denied and the third estate in the meeting came out of the meeting because they
think that they will never get whatever they wanted. Instead of letting them in again, King louis
XIV just banned the third estate from the meeting. After that, 150 of the first estate and 2 of
the second estate also moved out of the meeting. That makes the people in high ranks are not
living safe in the country. When a high-ranked person does whatever they want, they will get
attacked by the commoners. The interesting part is King louis XIV is still there, because the
commoners still wanted the king to still be a king, but with a fair constitution. During that time,
there was a fear in the commoners that there will be other enemies that will invade their city,
because France is not stable right now. The queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is an Austrian.
She said that she will send an army to help France out. When the army comes, she is afraid that
the commoners of France will attack the army instead of letting them help. So, Austria
threatened the French commoners that dont use force against the royals, or hey will get
punished. But that threaten worked oppositely. The French commoners are angry that they are
threatened because they have the power at that time, so they just beheaded King Louis XVI and
Queen Marie Antoinette by a guillotine. France has no more government and king. The high-
ranks has to migrate to another country, and the absolute power comes to the rebellion. Then
the rebellion has an idea that they will support the countries that overthrow their king. They
dont want monarchy with constitution anymore. This makes the other countries dont like
France. France then declared war with England, and they came up with an idea that every man
that are not married and has appropriate age has to join the army. By the way, the leader of the
rebellion is Maximillian. Maximillian is a very afraid of getting himself killed. So, he killed
everyone that he suspects that the person may kill him. Just even suspect. He thinks that killing
the wrong guy is better than letting the bad guys escape. A year after (people let him kill for A
YEAR!) beheaded Maximillian themselves, because they think that his idea is destroying the
country. After that, the French invited their high-ranks that are migrated back to France. Louis
XVIII also came back to France.

Back to the 1760s (Louis XV), France bought the Corsica Island from Italy, and converted
the Italians to French, but the nobles disagreed. Louis XV has an idea that nobles of Italy will
stay as nobles, even they are French. There was an old man who first disagreed with this, but he
died just before King Louis XV gave his idea, so the family named his grandson just like him,
Napoleon. He was a high-class man at birth, so he was supported in education. When he grew
up, he used his Math and war training skills and he became a cannon specialist. In 1793, nobles
in Corsica asked to separate themselves to go with England. Then, Napoleons general was
selected by the rebellion. When the English comes for the nobles, Napoleons general ordered
him to fire a cannon at them, but Napoleon refused to do that. He gave a reason that the range
is too far. His general liked his idea, and let him be the controller of the cannons. Napoleon
started to improve the cannons by guiding the terrains that is appropriate for the cannon to
shoot. Also, he ordered more cannons because originally there was only 5 cannons. He then
won many battles against England.

There were some rebellions that doesnt like idea of the first rebellion (rebellion in a
rebellion) in France that are planned to destroy Paris, and people asked Napoleon for help, and
Napoleon won the fight against them. He then got promoted to the head of the military service.

Finally, Napoleon made a huge mistake. The war between France and England was
declared, and Napoleon planned that he will spread a lie that he will attack England from
Ireland, but what he actually does is he attacked the colonized part in Egypt first to cut their
supply. His mistake is he stayed in Egypt for too long, and the English attacked France at that
time, but he did not give up. He used his army to fight back, and it succeeded. He thought that
France needs a good, strong ruler, so he declared himself as an emperor.

Reflection: I think I did my best researching for the French Revolution really deeply. This took
me about four hours and a half. The reason that I do this all in one day is that I have a lot of
more work to do in other subjects like Physics quiz (which is extremely hard), and many other
homework. Now I am done with my researching part that I planned with Tarn and Gun, so from
now on, I will be working on the final product.
References:
M. (2014, November 12). . From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdkoX63qDoU&t=846s and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RskMEyjZg
History.com Staff. (2009). French Revolution. From http://www.history.com/topics/french-
revolution
French Revolution. (2017, September 17). From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
The Editors of Encyclopdia Britannica. (2017, May 07). French Revolution. From
https://www.britannica.com/event/French-Revolution
French Revolution 1789. (2017, August 04). From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlH2QkwZsY
N. (2013, July 11). The French Revolution -In a Nutshell. From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo