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The Palace at Versaille
During this period, the village of Versailles centred on a small castle and church and the area was governed by a local lord. Its location on the road from Paris to Dreux and Normandy brought some prosperity to the village but, following an outbreak of the Plague and the Hundred Years' War, the village was largely destroyed and its population sharply declined. Therefor it was bad for the French people. -
King Loius
King Louis Marry's Marie Antionette -
Tennis Court Oath
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. -
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. -
The First Meeting Of The Estate General.
He did this because he was forced to.
France was bankrupt and the Royal family had been severely threatened. This was an emergency situation and the Estates general were representatives of all classes who were asked for their view and vote on the current state of France. Meaning Louis XVI was forced to put that power that originally belonged to him as being King, to them. -
Declaration Of Men
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties -
The gulliotine
The Guillotine Is A device used for carrying out executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body. -
Robespierre
Robespierre, as an enlightened thinker, brought revolutionary ideas of equality, liberty and fraternity to the minds of the French people already put under pressure by poverty, exacerbated by an incapable king and an exorbitant queen.During the revolution, he also made France a secluar state. He attempted to re-name the months of the year and make 1794 the first year of French history. This did not catch on though, and his attempt to institute a new "festival of the saint" was also unsucessful. -
Marie Antoinette
After the royal family's flight to Varennes, Louis XVI was deposed and the monarchy abolished on 21 September 1792; the royal family was subsequently imprisoned at the Temple Prison. Nine months after her husband's execution, Marie Antoinette was herself tried, convicted of treason, and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793. -
Robespierre
On July 28, 1794, Robespierre and his followers were guillotined. The period known as the Terror came to an end.
