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National Assembly
A group made up of mostly of the thirded estast members that was in charge making laws and constitutions. -
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French Revolution
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Tenis Court Oath
It was a act of defiance by the representatives of the Third Estate angenst the other estates and they decided to make their own constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Louis XVI had dismissed the Finance minister Jaques Necker. Necker was sympathetic to the third estate. People who supported the establishment of an assembly in Paris suspected that the King would stop the establishment and therefore attacked Bastille. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The people of France brought about the abolishment of the absolute monarchy and set the stage for the establishment of the first French Republic. Just six weeks after the storming of the Bastille, and barely three weeks after the abolition of feudalism, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly as the first step toward writing a constitution for the Republic of France. -
Women March
Women riot over the high price of bread and they un in to an angrey mob who made the king and queen return to Prias -
Flight to Verrenes
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, their children and closest servants fled Paris in secret, hoping to reach the Luxembourg border and to join the Austrian troops there. -
Chamo De Mars Massavre
Parisian crowd clashed with the city's National Guard at the Champ de Mars The result was a "massacre" of the crowd -
Declaration of Pillnity
Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden (Saxony) by the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Frederick William II of Prussia. It declared the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and of Prussia for King Louis XVI of France against the French Revolution.
