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CONSERVATIVE REPUBLIC
It witnessed the collapse of the monarchy, the establishment of the First French Republic and culminated in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the beginning of the Napoleonic era. -
THE GREAT FEAR
It wasa period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
STORMING OF BASTILLE
On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
CONSTITUTION (SOCIAL DEMOCRACY)
The storming of the Bastille set a precedent: For the first time in modern history, ordinary men and women, through their collective action in the streets, ensured the creation of a constitutional system of democratic government. -
CONSTITUTION OF 1791
French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. -
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
The Constitutional Monarchy was a period during the French Revolution from 1791 to 1792 during which Louis XVI enjoyed only a fraction of the power he had as an absolute monarch; developments of this change began in 1789. -
SOCIAL REPUBLIC
In the history of France, the First Republic, officially the French Republic, was founded on 22 September 1792 during the French Revolution. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire in 1804 under Napoleon, although the form of the government changed several times. -
STORMING OF TUILERIES PALACE
It was a defining moment of the French Revolution (1789-99) in which armed revolutionaries from Paris invaded the residence of King Louis XVI of France (who reigned from 1774 to 1792) and massacred his Swiss guards. -
EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI
After an attempted escape from the city of Paris, he was arrested in Varennes, taken back to the French capital and suspended from his duties. After the assault on the Tuileries palace where he lived at the time, he was arrested, prosecuted and finally guillotined. -
FALL OF THE JACOBINS
The Jacobin government ends with the arrest of Saint-Just and Robespierre, on 9 Thermidor, July 27, 1794. The next day, they are guillotined along with 20 followers. It is estimated that in the following days, some 80 Jacobin deputies are executed. -
PEOPLE IN THE BEGIN TO RETURN
On November 9, 1799, Bonaparte took control of the government in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and put an end to the unpopular Directory. His rise marked the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era.