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Meeting of the States-General
The First Estate, which is made up of clergy of Roman Catholics. The Second Estate is made up of rich nobles. And the Third Estate is made up of Urban lower class and peasant farmers and had the power to influence the government. -
Tennis Court Oath
I think the Tennis Court Oath contributed to the rise of the democracy because this got the National Assembly all together and gave them recognition. The Assembly pledged to finalize the constitution, and that is where the Constitution of 1791 came from. -
Storming of the Bastille
citizens tried to retrieve gunpowder from the Paris prison, Bastille. The prison guards were overwhelmed, and the prison was taken over by the citizens. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man was created
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man.Articles:
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. -
Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody
were placed uLouis XVI was forced to sign away most of his power to the new government, the National Assemblynder house arrest at Tulieres Palace in Paris. -
Execution of Louis XVI
After donning the crown, things only got worse. The economy spiraled downward(prices).The anger of the French people, fueled by xenophobia, targeted Marie as a prime source of their problems. -
Bread riots in Paris
Bread was the basic staple of most people’s diets, and variations in the price of bread were keenly felt by the poor, especially by women who most frequently bought bread in the marketplace. Women would sometimes protest against what they thought to be unjust price increases for bread in what were known as "bread riots" for lower prices. -
Committee of Public Safety created
Originally consisting of nine members of the convention, it was formed as an administrative body to supervise and expedite the work of the executive bodies of the convention and of the government ministers appointed by the convention.
. colleagues by their enemies at the convention, power in the government was restored to the convention. -
Execution of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was called Madame Deficit and blame was placed on her for the country's financial problems.Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. -
Fall of Maximilian Robespierre
His influence grew daily, and the mob frantically admired his earnest cant and his boasted incorruptibility.he carried the motion that no member of the present Assembly should be eligible for the next, and was appointed public accuser. -
Maximilian leader of Committee of Public Safety
Radical revolutionaries believed themselves surrounded by enemies, both inside (Royalists) and outside of the country (coalition forces). In order to preserve the accomplishments of the revolution, they regarded it necessary to destroy the enemy. -
Napoleon Coup d'État at Paris
Napoleon glosses over the conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution of 1795 and the duly elected legislature.At this moment, Napoleon portrays himself as a simple “soldier of liberty, a citizen devoted to the Republic.”
