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Estate - General
an assembly was called for representatives from all three estates to approve this new tax. the first in 175 years was held on may 5, 1789, at Versailles. -
National Assembly
they voted to establish the national assembly, and passed laws and reforms in the name of French people. -
Batille Day
the fall of the Bastille becomes a great symbolic act of revolution to the french people, the angry attackers hack the prison commander and several gaurds to death, they parade around the streets with the dead mens head on pikes. ever since this has been a french national holiday -
the assembly reforms france
noblemen made grand speeches, declaring their love of liberty and equality. -
Legislative Assembly Set Aside Constitution
under pressure from radicals in the streets they set aside constitution and declared king deposed, desolved the assembly, and called for the election of a new legislature. -
France at war
prussian forces were advancing on paris, revolutionaries harmed any member of the royal family this enraged the parisians, on this day about 20,000 men and woman invaded the Tuileries (where the royal family was staying) the mob killed the gaurds and impissioned Louis, Antoinette, and their children -
the war continues
the former king gets beheaded with the Guillotine. -
End of the terror
the radical phase of the french revolution ended, Robespierre goes to the guillotine, which caused the french public opinion to shift dramaticly
