french revolution

By jose olveda

  • Estates General

    The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak

  • Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles

    This assembly was composed of three estates

  • the Third Estate locked out

    The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems

  • Third Estate take

    . There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.

  • Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly

    After Louis XVI's failed attempts to sabotage the Assembly and to keep the three estates separate, the Estates-General ceased to exist,

  • storming the bastillle

    a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly

  • Wives' March

    many Parisian women marched towards Versailles and ransacked the apartment of the queen.

  • Pope Pius VI condemns

    Pope Pius VI issued an encyclical condemning the Civil Constitution and threatening to suspend all clergy who took the oath

  • the women of paris

    The royal Flight to Varennes French Fuite a Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette,