Daily+Documentary+updates

**Feb**January 17th - Blair, Yvonne and I gathered info on the French Revolution. We researched books in the Library and a few internet sources.

Jan 18th - Today I emailed a history professor at UNCA to try and set up an interview time within the next two weeks. and I took detailed notes on the FR during class.

I forgot to daily update on Jan. 17th

January 19th & 20th
- Did not have much time to work on the project

January 21st
-Founding Documents Day

January 22nd
-SAT

January 23rd
-Compiled notes on French Revolution -heard back from history professor at UNCA, she may be coming to campus to meet with all of our groups

January 24th
-for Blair and Yvonne...

**The Capture of the Bastille**
The early days of the Revolution were punctuated by three significant popular uprisings: the taking of the Bastille on July 14, the "Great Fear" of July and August, and the march on Versailles Palace on October 5. These were all dramatic and transformative events; in every case, they brought home the seriousness of the endeavor whenever it had become stalled and consequently restarted the process.

Events were happening quickly and few people could believe that the monarch or the aristocracy would allow the process to continue. In addition, the unrest had resulted in dire shortages of bread; most French believed that this was a deliberate attempt by the aristocracy to starve out the Revolution. By June, most everyone was convinced that the king was poised on retaking the government by force.

Fearful of both the king and the poor, who were growing more violent with each passing day out of frustration and desperation, the electors of Paris, that is, the members of the Third Estate who could vote in the National Assembly, took matters into their own hands. These electors were modest people: tradespeople, craftsmen, small businessmen. They would eventually be called**sans-culottes**, because they didn't wear the breeches (//culottes// ) of the upper class (more on the //sans-culottes// when we talk about the radical revolution). They banded together and formed a new municipal government of Paris; on July 14, the marched to the Bastille. This structure was a medieval keep that served as both a prison and a warehouse for fireaarms and ammunition.

When the crowd arrived at the Bastille, they demanded arms and ammunition from the Governor of the Bastille. At first he refused, but as the mob grew larger, he ordered his soldiers to fire on the crowd. Ninety-eight were killed and the crowd, fierce for revenge, stormed the fortress, released the prisoners (five criminals and two madmen), decapitated the Governor, and distributed arms to the citizenry.

The taking of the Bastille was a transformative event; it, along with the establishement of revolutionary municipal governments across France, convinced the monarch and the aristocracy that the country fully supported the revolution. From this point onwards, there was no question in Louis's mind that the National Assembly should serve as the primary legislative body of France.

**The Great Fear**
Popular uprisings soon travelled the length and breadth of the nation; all throughout France, the people feared a counter-revolution by either the monarch or the aristocracy. This fear reached total panic at the end of June, and the peasantry all over the nation began to set fire to aristocratic houses, monasteries, and public records houses. These two months of panic in the countryside, called "The Great Fear," inspired the National Assembly beginning on August 4 to completely disassemble the manorial system in which peasants were tied to landlords through an elaborate system of fees. It also inspired the Assembly to abolish the //corvée// and all tithing to the church. These days of reformative action in the Assembly, called the "August Days," abolished serfdom, aristocratic exemption from taxation, and effectively eliminated all class in France. By the end of August, all members of French society were equal under the law.

**Declaration of the Rights of Man**
Like Rousseau, the members of the National Assembly believed that the social contract underlying European government was fundamentally flawed since it was based on principles that protected only the wealthy and the aristocracy at the price of the rest of the nation. The new government, they insisted, would be founded on the correct principles of authority. These principles were drafted in a document called **The Declaration of the Rights of Man** in August of 1789. This document was produced to provide the basic blueprint or ground rules of the new constitution.

The Declaration is based on principles derived from Rousseau, from the English Bill of Rights of 1688, and the Virginia Bill of Rights drafted in 1776. The fundamental argument of the Declaration is that all men are born with natural rights, such as liberty and property; government and authority were instituted by humans only to protect those rights. The new constitution, then, should be based entirely on this idea of protecting individual rights and equality.

Louis, however, refused to sanction the document, particularly since it seriously destroyed aristocratic privilege. However, a third popular uprising in October forced his hand. Faced with increasing shortages of bread, the women of Paris marched to Versailles on October 5 and demanded bread. When the crowd stayed he night, Louis agreed to ratify the Declaration. This was not good enough. The crowd stormed the palace and demanded that Louis return to Paris so that he could be more closely watched by the citizenry. On October 6, Louis and his family were escorted by the crowd back to Paris. --- taken from http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REV/FIRST.HTM

January 25th
- today i made the beginning of our documentary using a few pictahz and the ken burns effect. also added music to it. it is pretty cool.

January 26th
- Yesterday I didn't have to work on the project much.

January 27th
- today Blair, Yvonne and I decided to meet this weekend to start filming again. Also we are splitting up the research, I will be going more in depth on the Great fear, Yvonne will be getting more info on the storming on the bastille and Blair is looking in to the march on versailles.

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 * January 28th **
 * - ** More websites...

- we started filming! we have our first scene!
 * JANUARY 29TH **

- i uploaded the footage from yesterday on my computer. and started editing some of the footage. alsoooo, Blair and Yvonne check this out... http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/summary.html we <3 spark notes
 * JANUARY 30th **

- Today, Yvonne and I retaped our interview with mr. pharr. Now we are in the library, I am storyboarding and Yvonne and Blair are working on the script.
 * JANUARY 31st**

**FEB. 1st** -Today was not a work day- we took notes in history class and learned about "The Terror". Mr. Mettee explained why the blade of Guillotine is slanted. "So the guy in the front row won't get blood on his coat."

- Today during history class we talked about the Egyptian Revolution and how it realtes to the French Revolution. In English class we learned about Jacques Louis David and his neoclassist art- he lived during the French revolution and painted inspiring, classical paintings that fueled the revolutionists passion. Yvonne, Blair and I made plans to meet this Monday (winter weekend) to work on the video. I am currently working on editing the footage we have so far- I'm also story boarding our next scenes.
 * FEB. 2nd **

- Did not do much work on the project today. Still working on editing.
 * Feb 3rd **

- I went to Nashville to visit Vanderbilt.
 * FEB. 4th/5th **


 * Feb 6th **
 * - I watched the super bowl and uploaded footage for the documentary **


 * Feb7th **
 * - I am meeting with Yvonne to write our script. **

I just wrote this on the National Assembly:

The National Assembly

The Estates General was called to Versailles to consult with King Louis about Frances financial problems. This was the first time the groups had been called together in 175 years. There were three divisions in the Estates general, The First estate (made up of clergy) The Second Estate (the nobility) and The Third Estate (mostly made up of the commoners). The third estate made up almost 97% of the population. The three chamber parliament made it so that the 1st and 2nd estate could always out vote the third- even though the 3rd estate made up most of the population. The Third estate had been told they had been granted double representation- that is, twice as many representatives as any other estate. This gave the commoners hope and power, which they had not previously possessed. They hoped to make changes for the people with their powerful vote. When they learned that all the Estates General votes would in fact be weighted equally- they became really angry. They decided to meet on their own. At first they began to call themselves the communes (commons) and gradually some of the nobles from the second estate and most of the clergy from the first estate joined their cause.

They demanded for fair taxation amoung the nobility and clergy- King Louis felt increasingly threatened by radical movements taking place. In an attempt to keep the National Assembly from operating- King Louis closed the hall where the communes (lead by maximillian robbespierre) met. However, they reconvened at a tennis court nearby and resolved not to stop meeting until France has a new constitution. They declared themselves the National Assembly. They were committed to the people.

I just took four more pages of notes on the national assembly..... i <3 this project


 * Feb 8th**

i am going to type up the notes I took yesterday and we are figuring out what to do with our introduction.


 * Feb 9th**
 * -** on wednesday the 9th I did not meet with my group to work on the project but I made plans to buy poster paper for part of our film.


 * Feb 10th**
 * -**on thursday the 10th i painted the poster paper that i bought on wednesday and I met with Yvonne and Blair to film our introduction.

-I am also filming my part of the documentary tonight. its on the national assembly. (**done CHECK**) - I started editing all of our footage together its awesome! we easily have 10 minutes. woowoo it is all down hill from here. - I just put a lot of footage together- it is looking good! we have 11:18 right now- and we haven't even added Yvonnes part or the Rizzo interview.
 * Feb 11th**
 * -** Today (friday) I filmed Blairs segment of the documentary, Yvonne downloaded the rizzo footage and now I'm catching up on wikispaces. but i only missed the 9th and the 10th!

- saturday! continued editing, started compiling works cited
 * Feb 12th**

- DONE with editing!!!!! works cited is all we have left :)
 * Feb 13th**

Yvonne here is my script... The Estates General was called to Versailles to consult with King Louis about Frances financial problems. There were three divisions in the Estates general, The First estate (made up of clergy) The Second Estate (the nobility) and The Third Estate (mostly made up of the commoners) The Third estate had been told they had been granted double representation- meaning that their vote would double because their estate housed twice as many representatives as any other estate. This gave the commoners hope and power, which they had not previously possessed. They hoped to make changes for the people with their powerful vote. When they learned that all of the Estates votes would in fact be weighed equally- they went right back to being the ignored and under-represented 3rd estate. In 1789- Maxamillian Robbespierre (a lawyer from Paris) came to the meeting place of the Estates General in order to fight for a fair voice for the 3rd estate Together, Robbespierre and the rest of the 3rd estate demanded that the nobility and the clergy pay taxes. King Louis began to feel threatened by the uprising of the 3rd estate On June 20th in 1789, the third estate was locked out of their meeting hall But that didn’t stop them- they moved to a nearby tennis court and they swore to not stop meeting until they had created a new constitution for France. There in the tennis court- the National Assembly was formed.
 * The National Assembly **