The French Revolution by Coursera
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Welcome to the French Revolution MOOC
1.1 An Introduction to the French Revolution
1.2 The Essentials of Eighteenth-Century France
1.3 The First & Second Estates: Clergy and Nobility
1.4 Paris and the Provinces
1.5 The 'Enlightenment': 'from above'
1.6 The 'Enlightenment': 'from below'
Course Overview
Your teaching team
Start of course survey
France in the 1780s
Week one quiz - 12% of final grade
What was the Old Regime?
9 Topics
2.1 An Atlantic crisis
2.2 A fiscal crisis and its repercussions
2.3 The Third Estate in revolt: bourgeoisie and menu people
2.4 The Third Estate in revolt: the peasantry
2.5 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the August Decrees
2.6 The October Days - the end of the Revolution?
The Revolution of 1789
Week two quiz - 12% of final grade
Was 1789 inevitable?
9 Topics
3.1 Making the new nation 1789-91
3.2 The Revolution divides
3.3 Turning-point 1: Church reform
3.4 Turning-point 2: the King's flight June 1791
3.5 Turning-point 3: The outbreak of war April 1792
3.6 A second revolution: 10 August 1792
Reform conflict and a second Revolution 1789-1792
Week three quiz - 12% of final grade
Why was Louis executed?
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4.1 September 1792: blood and death
4.2 September 1792: republican unity and disunity in the National Convention
4.3 Revolution and counter-revolution: the balance of forces
4.4 The crisis of 1793
4.5 Emergency measures: the implementation of 'terror'
4.6 How to end 'terror' December 1793
Interview with Dr Marisa Linton
Interview with Professor Timothy Tackett
Interview with Professor Ian Germani
Interview with Charles Walton
The crisis of 1792-1793: war and terror
Week four quiz - 12% of final grade
The Terror - Necessary emergency measures or revolutionary violence?
10 Topics
5.1 Robespierre and 'virtue'
5.2 The ideology and culture of the Terror
5.3 The Jacobin and sans-culottes alliance
5.4 Emergency measures or revolutionary violence?
5.5 Thermidor Year II - 27 July 1794
5.6 The 'settlement' of 1795: the end of the Revolution?
Ending the terror ending the revolution 1794-1799
Week five quiz - 12% of final grade
What was the nature of the ideology of the 'Terror'?
Why were Robespierre and his associates overthrown in July 1794?
12 Topics
6.1 Napoleon Bonaparte and the Restoration
6.2 The 'minimalist' approach to the signifance of the Revolution
6.3 Who is a citizen? The experience of women
6.4 Who is a citizen? The experience of slaves
6.5 The international repercussions: a global crisis?
6.6 The 'maximalist' approach: the turning-point of the modern world
Assignment video
The significance of the French Revolution
Academic integrity
End of course survey
Peer assessed writing assignment - 40% of final grade
How revolutionary was The French Revolution?
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