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French Revolution provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 16 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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16 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • This free course provides basic historical background to the French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Enlightenment, liberty and revolution
    • 1 Enlightenment, liberty and revolution
    • 2 Death of the Old Regime
    • 2 Death of the Old Regime
    • 2.1 The bankrupt monarchy
    • 2.2 The Third Estate as the voice of the nation
    • 2.2.1 Sample analysis and discussion of ‘What is the Third Estate?’
    • 2.3 Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789
    • 2.4 Enlightened reformism – dismantling the Old Regime
    • 2.5 Declaration of the Rights of Man
    • 2.5.1 Imagery of the Declaration
    • 2.6 Enlightenment, revolution and reform – the departments
    • 3 From 1789 to the flight to Varennes
    • 3 From 1789 to the flight to Varennes
    • 3.1 The moderate reformers
    • 3.2 Popular violence and the Revolution
    • 3.3 The divide over the Church, 1790
    • 3.4 Monarchy and the Revolution – the flight to Varennes, 1791
    • 4 Europe and the French Revolution
    • 4 Europe and the French Revolution
    • 4.1 Intellectual, governmental and monarchical responses
    • 4.2 Political polarization and the fall of the monarchy
    • 4.3 Birth of the republic: war, civil war and terror
    • 4.4 The guillotine
    • 4.5 The sans-culotte as revolutionary hero
    • 4.6 The Terror in action
    • 5 Enlightenment, universalism and revolution
    • 5 Enlightenment, universalism and revolution
    • 5.1 Revolutionary calendar and metric system
    • 5.2 The cult of the Revolution
    • 5.3 The Marseillaise
    • 6 The Thermidorian Settlement and the end of the Revolution
    • 6 The Thermidorian Settlement and the end of the Revolution
    • 7 Conclusion
    • 7 Conclusion
    • 7.1 The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Britain and Europe
    • 7.2 The main consequences of the Revolution
    • 7.3 The Great Nation
    • References
    • Acknowledgements

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