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General States
The General Estates were formed by the representatives of each estates. They were separated when they had to deliberate and they only had one vote by estate. The call of 1789 was a reason of preocupation to the opposition, it existed the belief that was an attempt by the monarchy of manipulate the assembly.
It was at stake the idea of national sovereignty to admit the group of members of parliament in the General Estates to represent the nation. The third impact of Estates had a politic turmoil. -
National Constituient Assembly
The first step of the assembly was to create the rights of the men and citizens. The monarchy opposed to the assembly and they closed the rooms where they were assembled. The members of the assembly moved to a near building were the aristocracy played the pelota. There they proceded to the oath of the ball play. The 20 of June of 1789 they promised not to separate until France had a new constitution. The 27 of June the king send an army that they arrived to Paris and Versalles. -
Constituent Assembly
The king Louis XVI acting by the influence of the nobles he layed off the minister Necker and he ordered the reconstruction of the finance minister. The 14th of July the village of Paris attack the fortress of Bastilla. After 4 hours of the combat they killed their ruler only four prisioner were liberated, the Bastilla passed to be a symbol of the despicable Old Regime. -
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The Beginning and the End of the French Revolution
The French Revolution started with the declare of the third state like National Assembly and ended with the coup d'etat of Napoleón Bonaparte. -
The Convention
The Imperial army and Prusia threatened to invade France if the population got resisted to restore the monarchy. This caused to Louis XVI a conspirer, so the Convention sentence Louis to the death the 21 of January of 1793 also the queen Maria Antonieta executed the same year. The 20th of September of 1793 won a prussian army in Valmy who led the called to the Revolutionary French Wars. But the economic situation got worse so the called sans culottes expresed their dissatisfied. -
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The Reign of terror
The radical revolutionaries used support from the sans-culottesto seize power to the Girondines. The Jacobin leader Robespierre assumed all powers, and established a dictatorship. This was a ten-month period of violent repression. A revolutionary tribunal called the Committe of Public Safety was established. This tribunal tried people who were suspected of opposing the Republic, were sentence to death by guillotine. Around 50,000 people were executed. -
The death of Luis XVI
On the morning of January 21, 1793, received the communion, Luis Augusto, called Louis Capetto by the revolutionaries and still king of France and Navarre for the monarchists, entrusted Cléry with the task of giving the last goodbye to his relatives. Louis arrived at the place where the guillotine was installed. Decapitated already, a National Guard picked up the bloodied head and showed it to the people walking around the scaffold. Some spectators began to dance in a circle around the scaffold. -
The Governing
The Governing approved a new constitution the 17th of August of 1795. The new constitution called the constitution of the year III confered the executive power to a Directory formed by 5 directors. The legislative power practised by a bicameral assembly, composed by the Board of the Eldery and the Board of the 500 hundreds. This Constitution suppressed the universal men vote and restored the censitary vote. -
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The Directory
Following the execution, a new constitution established limited suffrage based on property ownership. The new regime never had much support by radicals that conspired against the goverment, The royalits also led revolts to restor the Bourbon dynasty and France won a serie of victories against its enemies. -
Napoleon's take of power
The new constitution found the opposition of the monarchic and jacobin groups. There were different riots who were repressed by the army. This led to Napoleón Bonaparte retourned to his campaign in Egypt, to do a coup d'etat the 18thof Brumario of 1799 seting the Consulate.
