French Revolution

By jeffreyv

  • Third Estates forms national aseembly

    Louis tried to make peace. He ordered the clergy and nobles to join the national assembly however trouble erupted. rumors flew that foreign soldiers were going to attack french citizens. On July 14, an angry crowed captured the Bastille, a Paris prison. The mob wanted to get gunpowder for their weapons in order to defend the city.

  • King Louis VXI called the Estates general

    King louis called the estates general for a meeting at the tennis court to talk about the constitution in france and how it should be changed. louis was not a good leader in france. he was treated the third estates differently and with no respect.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

  • March of the versaille

    the Women's March On Versailles was basically a point in the French Revolution where a tonne of starving French peasant ladies wanted bread and came to the palace of Versailles to take out their anger of hunger on King Louis XVI and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette.

  • Execution of Louis XVI and Queen Marie

    He had been imprisoned in the Tower for several months prior to his execution. they executed him because he had sex with many villagers and the villagers got sad so they had his testicles slowly chopped off and his penis put in a blender

  • start of reign of terror

    the reign of terror started July 1793 to July 1794. it was started to defend and protect the revolution from perceive enemies. The Reign of Terror officially began on 5 September 1793 and continued to 27 July 1794.

  • execution of robespieere

    Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre was executed on the 28th July, 1794 in the Place de la Revolution, Paris along with Louis Saint-Just and Georges Couston as well as nineteen others. The crowd cried "Down with the tyrant!" as he was about to be executed. It is belived Robespierre is the only person to have been executed by the guillotine face up so he could see the blade approaching.