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Louis XVI
Was the King of France and was beheaded by the upper people of France after they thought he was doing a horrible job of being King. He was also married to Marie Antoinette. -
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Marie Antoinette
Was the Queen of France and was beheaded by the upper people of France after they thought she did a horrible job of being Queen. She was also married to Louis XVI -
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Maximillian Robespierre
Was a French Lawyer and Politician and was on of the most influential people of The French Revolution -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Was the Emperor of France for a few years after King Louis and Marie Antoinette were executed. Made the Napoleonic Code. While being emperor of France Napoleon invaded and took over Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, most of Western Germany and northern Italy. -
Tennis Court Oath
The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
Is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
An angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. -
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Reign of Terror
A period of The French Revolution where thousands of people were beheaded.