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Estates-General
The king met obliged to her call to try to obtain the approval of new taxes. It is the French assembly composed by the representatives of three conditions. Every estate had a vote. -
Storming of the Bastille.
Bastilla was a jail of political prisoners that was representing the symbol of the absolutism. The people of Paris assaulted the Hem and provoked revolts in other cities and in the field. -
Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen.
The assembly adopts the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen starts by saying " the persons are born and remain free and equal in rights ". -
New Constitution.
The French assembly proclaims the new Constitution accepted by the king, who now is a constitutional monarch. -
French Republic.
The National Convention proclaimed the first French Republic. -
Reign of Terror.
It is restored on the part of the extreme left, the Jacobins who are the most radical. The reign of the terror, they were executing any suspect partial to the Monarchy. -
The Directory.
When Robespierre is guillotined, the bourgeois party of the girondinos takes the power with a government of five persons that is the Directory. -
Dictatorship.
The dictatorship is restored. Military leaders demolished to the Directory and take the power, between them Napoleon Bonaparte stands. -
Napoleón Bonaparte.
There is a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte, who has just returned to France, obtains the political power, Napoleon would have absolute power for fifteen years.
