French Revolution

By lucas jaso

  • 2.Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versaill

    louis XVI, who ascended the French throne in 1774, proved unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France’s economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people–the nobles,

  • .The people of Paris storm the Bastille

    the people of France stormed Bastille for gun powder for the muskets they stole, and then they ravaged to the kings palace

  • bankruptcy

    caused by deficit spending, financial ministers, but they were rejected. Assembly of notables voted down taxation for nobility in 1787.

  • reason to call a meeting

    France was in bankruptcy and had some political problems and finally King Louis XVI and it had been a long time since there was a meeting. members of the estates elected representatives.

  • Louis XVI calls for the Estates General

    In 1789, the King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General. It was the first meeting of the Estates General called since 1614. He called the meeting because the French government was having financial problems.

  • Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting

    The third estate wanted voting to be on population because they had one more people, most of the third estate was peasants and farmers. King Louis did not like it so he kicked them out.

  • Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

    with the Third Estate relocated to a nearby tennis court where its members vowed
    to stay together and create a written constitution for France

  • Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution

    at the National Assembly all al members and each one of them individually shall ratify this steadfast resolution by signature. and also swore on the constitution “Decrees that all members of this Assembly shall
    immediately take a solemn oath not to separate, and
    to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until
    the constitution of the kingdom is established and
    consolidated upon firm foundations;

  • The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris

    the women of Paris were mad that the queen stepped on the flag and raised the price of bread so they broke in the palace and ravaged through it to find the queen to kill her but she fast ran away to the kings apartment

  • The king goes to Paris

    King louie goes to Paris in the time he has to get away, in Paris he is a prisoner there and he soon laters tries to escape