Enlightenment and French Revolution

By maddie14310

  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    Louis XVI, divided over a fundamental issue, Versailles, bc France, both government and people, was broke.

  • Tennis Court Oath

    Protestant Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint- Etienne, Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles, and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, Salle du Jeu de Paume, it represented the power of the people.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    Hundreds of Parisians, the prison was attacked and overtaken by protestors at the start of the French Revolution, Bastille Paris, fears that king XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly.