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What is the Third Estate?
by Abbé Sieyés
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Phase One
-For constitutional monarchy
-Economic Crisis, Alientation of the Intellectuals, Movement Left -
Estates-General gathered
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French National Assembly forms
Third Estate representatives- Bourgeoisie -
The Tennis Court Oath
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Bastille mobbed
Stormed by petit bourgeoisie
Great Fear throughout summer- peasants -
French Decree
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FNA adopts Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Women's bread riots
March to Versailles- women (petit bourgeiosie)
Angry men and women forced royal family back to Paris
Confined on the old Tuleries Palace -
National Assembly declares martial law
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Church property nationalized
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Nobility officially abolished
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Royal family caught escaping in Vareness
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Constitutional monarchy
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Unicameral French Legislative Assembly convenes
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Phase Two
Rise of Jacobism
War with Europe
Terror (7/93-7/94) -
France invades Austria-Prussia
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Louis XVI asks Legislative Assembly to declare war on Austria and Prussia -
Royal family imprisoned
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September Massacres
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Killed all the people in prisons
-Led to regicide -
The new Convention abolishes monarchy and proclaims a republic
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Louis XVI is beheaded
Convicted of treason -
Convention overthrows Robespierre to end the Reign of Terror
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Then got a new constitution
Robespierre guillotined -
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Phase Three: Thermidorian Reaction
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Napolean Bonaparte overthrows the Directory in a coup d'état
Emmanuel Sieyés makes Constitution of 1799
1802- Napolean appointed consul for life
1804- Proclaims himself emperor Napoleon I of France