Week 4

UNIT 3: THE FIRST REVOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

Monday, September 18
Topic:
How and Why Did the Constitutional Revolution Occur?
Reading:
Hunt and Censer, pp. 34-35
Excerpts from Abbé Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789) (Canvas)

Wednesday, September 20
Topic:
How and Why Did the Popular Revolution Begin?
Reading:
Hunt and Censer, pp. 35-37, 47-53
Excerpts from the August 4, 1789 Session of the National Assembly (Canvas)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen (1789) (Canvas)
Listening:
Canvas Lecture: What was Seigneurialism?

Friday, September 22
Topic:
How and Why Was the Revolution Limited?
Reading:
Hunt and Censer, pp. 53-57
Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Women (1791)