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Marriage of king louis 16 and marie anntoinette
The day that King Louis 16 and Marie Anntoinette married.Marie was 14 and king louis was 15.Marie came from Austria.They were married in the church of Augustine in Vienna. -
King Louis 16 taking the throne
The reason he married Marie was so he could take the throne. Because 5 years before his father died. He was the next heir to the throne. -
The Tennis Court Oath
This occured when the king orders the meeting of the third estate or the National Assembly to close. To protect themselves the third estate adopted an oath to read that they would stay together until a constitution was formed. This was a succesful protest. This document basically meant the people didn't have a king they ran themselves as a group. -
Fall of Bastille
This was a symbol of power because of the dismissal of Necker and the price of bread, the artisans/ journeyman set out to protect themselves from feared attacks with weapons. They went to Bastille. This ended by 100 deaths and the fall of Bastille. -
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The French Revo;ution
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The Revolution
The Revolution caused a big shift of power from the Roman catholic Church to the state, the church was the 2nd largest landowner in that time owning just about 10% of the kingdom. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
This Declaration was created to the from of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. This was made in the form of the first ten Amendments to the U.S Constitution. This was passed on September 25, 1789 -
Women March on Versailles
This lasted for two days. Women had marched to Versailles and forced the royal family all the way back to Paris. The purpose of this was to get bread and force the price of bread to go back down. -
Royal Escape
This went for 5 days. King Louis XVI and Marie- Antoinette and their kids were arrested for there escape. The king's authority was suspended. Louis still loved by some begins to be thought of by many as a traitor becoming a major turning point in the Revolution. -
Death of King Louis 16
King Louis was sent to the guillotine because of his escape.This is when you could say that the monarch died because king louis was now gone and napolean was coming. -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was pretty much the time of when everybody was getting executed by guillotines or whatever the king had ordered the executors to do. -
Napoleon be coming leader
Napoleon Bonaparte was the french emperor from 1804 to 1815,he was a amazing war leader and a great leader for the french he brought ideas from the enlightenment and approved them for the french people
