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Assembly of Notables 1787
France is broke because of all it’s wars, so Louis XVI’s finance minister calls nobles to get them to support a new tax plan.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_Notables#/media/File:Rouget_-_Assemblée_des_notables_à_Rouen_(4_novembre_1596).jpg) -
The Great Fear
was a general panic that took place between 17 of July and 3 of August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and, fueled by rumors of an aristocrats' "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, both peasants and townspeople mobilized in many regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fear -
Meeting Estates General of 1789
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Women’s March on Versailles
Sans-culottes women in Paris are mad about bead prices and Louis XVI’s detachment, so they march on Versailles so that they can take part in the Revolution too. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_March_on_Versailles) -
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
The document that declares what rights are natural, unalienable and sacred for all men, but it doesn’t do anything to help women or slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The National Assembly doesn’t like the church having power, so they use this opportunity to assert their authority over the clergy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Constitution_of_the_Clergy#/media/File:Je_jure_de_maintenir_la_constitution.jpg) -
National Assembly Becomes Legislative Assembly
France makes a new Constitution that makes the National Assembly become an official legislature (https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/legislative-assembly/) -
National Convention Makes France a Radical Republic
People aren’t happy with the Constitutional Monarchy Louis XVI is forced out of the palace and taken into custody, so France no longer is a monarchy and instead becomes a Republic without a King -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Execute
The National Convention votes to kill Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by guillotine for treason (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI) -
Thermidorian Reaction puts the Directory in Power
France is becoming too safe to be willing to submit itself to the Reign of Terror and Robespierre’s insane spree of executions, so it has a counterrevolution against the radical Jacobins (https://www.britannica.com/event/Thermidorian-Reaction) -
Leveé on Masse and Reign of Terror 1793-1794
France needs power and string military so Robespierre makes France into a hyper-nationalistic military super power (https://www.britannica.com/event/Reign-of-Terror) -
Napoleon Bonaparte stages a Coup D’ Etat
The directory is losing power and many French citizens want a single leader again to restore a sense of order and national pride, so they decide this diminutive 30 year old war hero Napoleaon is the perfect candidate, who later become the emperor of France and takes over Europe (https://www.britannica.com/event/Coup-of-18-19-Brumaire)
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