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Estates General Meeting
For the first time in 175 years, all 3 of the Estates' representatives gathered for a meeting called the Estates General Meeting. Here is where the nobility and the clergy teamed up against the peasants by majority rule and equal amounts of representatives on each side. Some lawyers were locked out of the meeting. -
National Assembly Formed
A group of 3rd Estate members who were locked out of the meeting. They wanted to separate from the other 2 Estates and start their own group. -
Tennis Court Oath Declared
The Oath of the Tennis Court was just outside of the Assembly where there was a tennis court where all of the peasants pledged to never stop meeting until there is a new constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
The prison/storehouse in Paris called the Bastille was obtained by the National Assembly and the nobles brought their army in to fight. People of the 3rd Estate took down the Bastille brick-by-brick in order to resemble the taking down of a tyranny -
Declaration of the Rights of Man Written
A Declaration (not constitution) made by the National Assembly very similar to the Declaration of Independence was made. It demanded an end to tyranny, sovereignty to all people, and more freedoms and rights to the 3rd Estate. -
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Legislative Assembly makes laws in France
The Assembly that made up the Radicals, the Moderates, and the Conservatives starts to make laws that will determine how the revolution will move on. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Once they did this action, the Republic was formed which would start a new wave of the Revolution. -
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Committee of Public Safety governs France
12 man group that was considered to be the main leaders of France. (collective-dictatorship) Led by Robespierre. -
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The Reign of Terror
The People of France wanted to get rid of the counter-revolutionists. Mass killings of people that went against the revolution or were suspected to be against the Revolution -
Execution of Maximilien Robespierre
This event ended the Reign of Terror for good and brought in new forms of leadership -
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The Directory controls France
Once Robespierre was executed, this group of 5 people came into power for 4 years. Replaced the Committee of Public Safety -
Napoleon Takes over in a coup d'etat
He saw that the Directory was losing control of the French people and took military action into defeating them and taking over the power. -
Napoleon signs Concordat with the Catholic Church
Restored the Church back in France post-revolution. But said that the church couldn't interfere with national affairs -
Napoleon creates the Napoleonic Code
Granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. Napoleon also secured this by creating the Bank of France which loyally served the interests of both the state and the financial oligarchy -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
He decided to crown himself the emperor so what they did is they had the pope give Napoleon is own crown and have him place it on his own head. -
Death of Napoleon
Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. Six years later, he died, most likely of stomach cancer
