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Palace of Versaille
The Palace of Versaille was built out of envy pretty much. King Louis XIV built it because he was jealous of finance minister having a better palace than his, which was called the Vaux-le-Vicomte, and confiscated Fouquet's estate. Was it good or bad for the French people i think it was bad becasue it got taken out of there taxes to help get that built. -
Marie Attoinette
Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution. Resented by the French citizenry for her foreign birth and extravagant lifestyle, Marie has gone down in history as the arrogant monarch who, when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread, said "let them eat cake." She almost certainly didn't say it: these days most scholars believe the story was phony revolutionary propaganda, or simply a mistake. But Marie was known to have been a wild spender as a young qu -
the decleration of the rights of man were important
it was important cause it had an impact on us today. -
Estates General meeting
Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, advised by his Minister of Finance Necker, decided to call for the meeting of the Estates General to solve France deep financial crisis.
The causes of this financial turmoil were:The tax system was unfair (only the poorest citizen were paying taxes).
- The king personal spending were huge
- The American war of independence cost France a lot while the country already had a huge debt -
The Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court located in the Saint-Louis district of Versailles (commune), near the Palace of Versailles. -
the storming of the Bastille
The Bastille, first off, was an armory/ jailhouse in the center of Paris. It was used to store weapons and at the current time hold political figures arrested due to violation of royal law. The peasants stormed the Bastille after hearing rumors that the king was sending the army to kill pesants and burn their crops. They stromed the Bastille to arm themselves and tear it down. It was an enormous symbolic act agains the ancien regime and it inspired revolutionaries such as the Jacobins. -
The Guillotine
The Guillotine was used to behead somebody. It was a quicker method. They used this device on Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. -
Robesphere wants for the people.
Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre went from being active in the National Assembly of France to being a leader of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. Called "The Incorruptible" because of his self-described moral virtue, he was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and the de facto leader of the country between 1793 and 1794. Robespierre's extreme and violent response to opposition was dubbed The Reign of Terror, and his ruthlessness eventually led to his downfall. -
What happened to Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France after marrying Louis XVI. During the French Revolution, the family was dethroned and put into prison. She was tried for treason and later beheaded.She went to her death wearing her favorite color purple. -
What happened to Robespierre
He went too far with his revolutionary ideas. He killed thousands of people, sending them to the guillotine, just because they still believed in the monarchial system Maximilien Robespierre wanted to get rid of so desperately.
He killed everybody that thought differently than him. He was the creator of the reign of terror and was eventually sent to the guillotine himself in 1794 after the French turned against him when their eyes opened and say what he had done.He was beheaded faced upwards.
