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First meeting of the Estates-General
King Luis was out of money because of the unbalance of taxation and he really was in emergency. His solution was to impose the taxes on the nobiliy, but Second Estate forced him to call a metting of the Estates General, an assembly of representatives from all three estates to approve this new tax. -
Storming of the Bastile
A mob stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison, to show up the act of revolution. The mob overwhelmed the guard conquered the building, and killed the prison commander and some guards. Then they paraded around the streets with the heads of dead men's on pikes. This became the great symbolic act of revlotion. -
Women's bread march
Because of the high pirce of money, they marched towards the Versailles and killed the safety guard to earn some foods to feed their children. -
Ends of Old Regime
The noblemen declared their love of liberty and equality. Motivation was more by fear than by idealism. They joined to National Assembly, by giving up their feudral privileges of the First and Second Estates, making equal to the nobles and the Cleargy. Thus the Old Regime was dead. -
Flees of King Louis
As the Ntional Assembly rearragned the relationship between church and state, King Louis and his family felt danger, so the they tired to escape from France to the Austrian Netherlands, but they apprehened and returned to Paris. -
The New Constitution
The new constitution limited the Monarch's power and created the new body of legislative, the Legislative Assembly. It had the power to creat laws and reject or approve declaractions of war, but still the king held the power to enforce the laws. -
Invad the Tuileries
The declare of the ligislative assembly war made the Prussian to force them and threatened them to destroy the Paris if the revolutionaries harmed any member of the royal family. Parisian enraged, and about 20,000 people invaded the Tuileries, where the royal family lives. -
The ends of monarchy and establishment of the National Convention
The National Convention was established, new government body established by National Assembly pressured under radicals . The king and assembly abicated, and this declared the Republic of French and men were granted the rights to vote, but not for women. -
King louis behead by a guillotine
Louis was found the sin from betray his citizen, and paid back to return. -
New government
The moderate leader of National Conventios planed the new go ernment third time since since 1789. Provided power firmly to upper middle class, called for a two house legislature and Directory. Some of them spend money form their rich but they found the right general to command, Napleon Bonaparte.
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