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Louis XVI summoned the Estates General on May 5, 1789, to find a solution to the severe financial crisis in Versailles. -
It was taken after the king shut the Third Estate out of Versailles pleading ti never separated themselves until the constitution in fixed, some nobles and clergy joined them. -
The National Assembly decided to write a constitution, being renamed as National Constituent Assembly.
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Fearing that the king would dissolve the National Constituent Assembly, people attacked the prison of the Bastille to get weapons. The revolution had started. -
They passed many laws, for example the creation of the national army, but it experienced many problems, such as the opposition of monarchy, and part of nobility and clergy.
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The King, unsuccessfully, tried to flee Paris. The royal family was imprisoned and taken into custody, and the idea of a republic started to be mooted. -
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The Girondins controlled the new assembly which held legislative and executive powers.
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The Sans-culottes assaulted the Palace, the royal residence because their problems hadn’t been solved, so they increased their violence, and the monarch was deposed. -
This was the end of the monarchy. -
The King was finally executed by the guillotine after having been brought to trial in December accused of opposing the revolution. -
In 1793, the war threatened the Revolution, so Maximilien de Robespierre, the leader of the Jacobins assumed all the power and set up a dictatorship. They instituted a new constitution and a Republican calendar was established. His dictatorship was called the Reign of Terror.
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The Girondins, shocked by Jacobins radicalism, took control again. And to avoid a new dictatorship, a moderated government was created, the Directory.