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Riegn of Louis XIV
Louis XIV ruled for 72 years. His nickname was the sun king; this is because he thought he was the light of the nation. He was a horrible ruler, he only thought about himself -
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Reign of Louis XV
Louis XV was the like previous ruler because he lived a very extravagant life style, and they both had a failure of government. -
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Reign of Louis XVI
He ruled for 19 years. He had very little response to the problems facing the middle and lower class. The middle class was very frustrated with Louis XVI. -
Louis XVI marries Marie Antionette
This is an important marriage because Austria and France were enemies. Marie Antoinette was only 15 when this marriage happened. Marie Antoinette spent tons of money on herself and that made people angry because there was lots of people that had lots of children and could not feed them because they were poor. -
American Declaration of Independence
John Locke’s philosophy greatly influenced it. The Declaration of Independence’s key beliefs are equality, justice and individual rights of all men, women and children -
Affair of the Diamond necklace
A countess told the cardinal that he could regain the queens favor is he met with her and said nice things about her. The countess made fake letters from the queen to the cardinal asking to meet him somewhere. Then the countess got the cardinal to buy a diamond necklace for the queen. When the cardinal could not pay for the necklace the -
Meeting of the Estates general
There is three Estates of the Estates general, the first the second and the third, the first has the clergy in it, the second has the aristocrats and the third is the middle class. The class with the most delegates is the third. Each Estate would vote as a Bloc. The Estates general would meet very seldom, their last meeting was in 1614. The king wanted Money from the Estates general. -
Third Estate leaves the Estates General
In July of 1789 the third Estate left the Estates general. After they broke with the other estates they formed the Nation assembly. -
Formation of the National assembly
Count Mirabeau led the nation assembly. They always met in royal tennis courts. -
Tennis court oath
A pledge was made that all members would meet till France had a new government. King Louis responded with democratic reforms, But they were rejected. The people were super happy. -
Fall of Bastille
People were rioting because of the price of bread. A mob attacked the prison to free the political prisoners. The King responded to this by sending foreign mercenaries to Paris and Versailles. The citizens responded to this by creating an army, called the national guard. -
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The great Fear
The peasants were super panicked and stormed the châteaux, they killed hundreds doing so. But there were some places in France that were not affected by the great fear, these were the isolated places. -
National Assembly abolishes feudal rights
The national assembly abolished all feudal rights and privileges and ended serfdom. It declared that all people are equal before the law. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This declaration guarantees freedom of speech, thought, religion security and property, and it put limits on the power of the government. John Locke Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousea are the philosophers whose idea it drew from. -
Women of Paris march to Versailles
The women marched to Versailles because of the food crisis and that they felt that the King was out of touch with the city. They attacked the National assembly when they got to Versailles. -
Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette attempt to escape France
They tried to escape France because Louis wanted Monarchy back. When they were caught Louis was forced to accept Frances new constitution. -
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Legislative assembly
The first thin the legislative assembly tried to establish was a workable government, but I t was doomed to fail. To many groups were struggling for power, that radicals wanted a republic and the moderates wanted a constitutional monarchy. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The National convection tried the king for his crimes. The King was known as citizen Louis Capet during the time of his trial. -
Jean-Paul-Marat-Death
He was a radical leader, which was his role in the revolution. He was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. -
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Reign of terror
The revolutionary government was responsible for it. The kind of laws that were being passed during the reign of terror is laws of suspects, reorganization of the Special Forces, laws to regulate business. Anyone who disagrees with radical Jacobin. People were executed by the guillotine. -
Execution of Marie Antoinette
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Jacques Danton – Death
His role in the revolution was that he opposed to any deals with the monarchy, He was prepared to bring the King to trial and execution. He was part of the National assembly. -
Maximilien Robespierre – Death
Robespierre role in the revolution was the same as Dantons. He belonged to the National Assembly. The Metric system was introduced, revolutionary calendar, efficient armies and new schools. He died by the guillotined, this was ironic because every around him that did’t agree with him got killed, and now he was killed. -
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The Directory
The middle class controlled the directory. They changed it up so most of the power goes to the people of poverty.
