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Jacques Necker
He was a Genevan banker who became a finance minister for Louis XVI and a French statesman. Necker played a key role in French history before and during the first period of the French Revolution -
Jean-Paul Marot
was a French political theorist, physician and scientist. He was a journalist and politician during the French Revolution. He was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes and seen as a radical voice. -
Emmanuel-Josephy Sieyes
He was usually known as the abbé Sieyès, was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, and political writer who was a chief political theorist of the French Revolution. He also held offices in the governments of the French Consulate -
Louis XVI
He was last king of France before the fall of the monarchy in the French Revolution. He was known as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months just before he was executed by guillotine. -
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child -
George Danton
George Jacques Danton was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, in particular as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety -
Jacobins
a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution -
Calling of the Estates-General
a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems. It ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly -
Tennis Court Oath
members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath French Serment du Jeu de Paume vowing not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established -
Attack on the Bastille
a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution -
Formation of the National Assembly
, the National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale), which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General -
Great Fear
French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution -
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, commonly The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First French Republic -
The Directory is formed
French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years
