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death of kinf louis 16
Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution. His father, Louis, Dauphin of France, was the son and heir apparent of Louis XV of France. As a result of the Dauphin's death in 1765, Louis succeeded his grandfather in 1774. -
causes of the french revolution
The causes of the French Revolution, the principal condition was the revolutio situation which was in 18th century France during mismanagement of the economy and,also , the costs incurred in fighting the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. The economic crisis was compounded by years of bad harvests and resulted in urban and rural resentment of the wealth and privilege enjoyed by the nobility and clergy and , the crisis led to the convocation. Research is found on wikipedia. -
france is out of money
the king was forced to call a meeting of th estates general french paralment.
representarives from the 3 estates met at the versallies palace with king louis 16.
they would vote on should the 1st and 2nd estate pay taxtes.
each estate got an equal amount of votes. -
tennis court oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch, a politician who would not execute decisions not sanctioned by the king. They made a makeshift conference room also. -
attack on the bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.Found on wikipedia of storming of the bastille. -
results of the french revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism. Popular resentment of the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and aristocrmmacy grew amidst a financial crisises following two expensive wars and years of bad harvests, motivating demands for change. -
D.R.M
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemnmn declaration the natural, unalilenable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of there rights and duties. -
bread march
Two hundred and twenty-five years ago today, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women .armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets .marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intense French Revolution. To the beat of a drum, the women said “Bread! Bread!” for, despite the fertile French soil, the populace of Paris was starving while the remote Louis the 3rd and the hated Marie Antoinette finished to feast like proverbial kings and quenns. -
bread mrach results
the thousands of women break through the dates and slaughtered the guards. the guards head were cut off and put on pikes.
king louis 16 and marie antoinette were captured and forced to sign the D.R.M
All the food at verallies and the king and queen were brought to paris.
king louis 16 would never see versailles agagin.
so why not just kill the king and queen.? (found on my notes and wikipedia and enclipedia.) -
formation of the national assembly
the 1st and 2nd estate outvoted the 3rd estate. the 3rd estate representsativesstormed out of the meeting and decided to form their own parliment called the "national assembly" and it would truly represent the french people.
when the national assembly returned the next day to meet, they discovered the door to the meeting room had been looked.(found on french national asslembly process). -
the great escape
the revolution had been going for about two years. the royal family was under house arrest in their palace in paris. the national assembly kept forcing king louis XVI to sign law after law that took more and more power away from the king (consituttional monarcy).
One night, the king and his family got in their royal carriage and using the cover of darkness they tried to head for austria. They made it right to the austrian border, but were spotted and captured and brought back to paris. -
royal escape
a couple years after the execution of his father 21-year-old Charles the 2nd and his men fail miserably to free his kingdom from the tyrannical rule of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcenster. The King would rather die trying to put back the monarchy, than sit by and watch the power of the English Commonwealth grown under its corrupt leaders He decides to disice himself as a peasant; at his first hiding-place at Boscopel, an estate wherein lived five catholic brothers called Pendrell. -
national assembly created
The French Revolution, the National Assembly which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter (until replaced by the Legislative Assembly on Sept. 30, 1791) it was the National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale constituante), though popularly the shorter form persisted. found on wikipedia. -
war
jan.21.1793 king louis XVI was beheaded.
Austria, Prussia,Spain,Portugal,Britain and the dutch republic declared war on france and invaded.
If france lost this war, then the french revolution would be crushed and frances absolute monacry would be resorted. -
reign of terror
The Reign of Terror, also known as The Terror, was a period of intense scary people that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". he said -
napolean bonapart
Napoléon Bonaparte (French pronunciation born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.
As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 1814 and again in 1815. He implemented a wide array of liberal reforms across Europe, including the abolition of feudalism and the spread of religious toleration
