French Revolution

By natalier23

  • Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles

    The estates composing of the clergy, nobility, and commoners, met at the Versailles. From all over France 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event, and the third estate were the greatest in number.

  • Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet

    It was an assembly to propose solutions to France's financial problems. Which ended when the third estate formed into a national assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.

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

    The political and financial situation in France had grown, forcing Louis XVI to call the national assembly.

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

    When they were locked out of their usual meeting hall, they went in search for a palace they could continue to meet in. There was a tennis court nearby, where they then took an oath.

  • Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

    After being locked out the Meeting hall, the third estate took an oath at the tennis court and pledged themselves to create a written constitution for France.

  • The Storming Of the Bastille

    French citizens rise up and take over the Bastille. They free the prisoners and take the needed gunpowder. They then tear it down, Brick by Brick.

  • The establishment of the Declaration of the rights of man

    It was established to help the foundation of the revolution, in hopes to end the monarchy, then later create a democracy in France.

  • Civil constitution of the French Clergy

    It was made as an attempt to reorganize the roman catholic church in France and make it accountable to the nation.

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

    Louis and his family were detained and brought back to Paris under guard , and eventually undermined the credibility of the king as a constitutional monarch.

  • The death of Louis XVI

    After being brought back to Paris, he was then tried by the revolutionaries. After the monarchy was abolished, "year I" of the French republic was declared, and Louis died at the guillotine.