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American Revolution
To participate in the American Revolution France borrowed 1500 million livres. Repaying the debt was equal to half of the total government revenue -
Declaration of Rights of man
A combination of the enlightenment of the philosophes; US Declaration of Independence and English bill of rights. Equality liberty and resistance to opposition. -
Calling of Estates General
Parliament refuses to register Tax on the three Estates. A year of conflict between the royal government and parliament followed. -
Abbot Sieyes Denounced Nobility
His words become the battle cry of the bourgeoisie. -
Meeting of Estates General
At Versailles. -
Nobles Persuade King Louis To Assemble the Estates General
Louis XVI gave in to his nobles and called a meeting of Estates general. -
Storming of the Bastille
The bastille, a prison was seen as a symbol of the kings authority. The Mob of angry people released the prisinors -
National Assembly
The Three Estates could not agree on voting methods -
Tennis Court oath
The Third estate was banned from a session of all three estates. The delegates met on an indoor tennis court and stayed together while drawing up a new constitution -
The great Fear
The peasants revolted, much property was destroyed, the people were demanded cheaper bread and suspension of feudal dues. The militia imposed law and order. -
Feudalism was abolished
The nobles gave away their feudal rights. -
Serfdom was Abolished
Serfdom is the status of many peasants under Feudalism. -
Declaration of rights signed.
Louis XVI signed the declaration of rights. -
church hands became national property.
This caused bringing clergy under government control. They would now be elected officials paid by the state. They had to swear an oath that tFrench Government was higher than the Pope. -
Royal family flees Paris.
they were caught by the army and returned to Paris -
Paris mob attacks Tuileries
The Tuileries was where the royal family were being held. Legislative Assembly replaced by National Convention. -
September Massacres
Jean Paul Marat attacks prisons and killed 1,600 prisoners -
Execution of Louis XVI
Jacobins wished the king executed. He was then sent to the Guillotine -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was considered a tyrant by his supporters. They turned against him and got him executed. -
Napoleon Coup D'etat
After all the French people went through in the revolution, They got stuck with a dictator
