French Revolution

By abigailswetland

  • Jacques Necker

    Jacques Necker
    Jacques was a Genevan banker and became a finance minister to Louis XIV. He was also a French statesman. He had a big role in history before the first period of the French Revolution.

  • Louis XIV

    Louis XIV
    Louis had the estates prepare cahiers listing their grievances. He ran up debt and attempted some economic reforms.

  • Olympe de Gouges

    Olympe de Gouges
    Olympe was a French playwright and political activist. She wrote about woman's rights and abolitionism. She was a political tension rose in France in the early 1780s.

  • Jacobins

    Jacobins
    Society of Friends of Freedom and Equality. The most influential political club during the French Revolution. The most radical, ruthless, and democratic groups.

  • Calling of the Estates general

    Calling of the Estates general
    A group of three groups called the clergy, nobility, and commoners. Who would decide on new taxes and to undertake reforms

  • Formation of the National Assembly

    Formation of the National Assembly
    The Formation of the National Assembly was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. They represented at least 96% of the nations. It represented the common people of France and demanded that the king should make economic reforms to insure that the people had food to eat.

  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the revolution. A signed oath pledging the displayed belief of political authority that came from the nations people and not from the monarchy.

  • Attack on the Bastille

    Attack on the Bastille
    Crowds gathered around the Bastille demanding weapons and gunpower they thought was stored there. the storming and the fall of the Bastille represented a challenge to the regime.

  • The Great Fear

    The Great Fear
    Peasant rebellions took over and made a general panic over the public people.

  • Womens march on Versailles

    Womens march on Versailles
    The march gave people confidence in the power of the people over the King.

  • Marquis de Lafayette

    Marquis de Lafayette
    Marquis is a moderate middle class militia. Was a French aristocrat. He fought in the American Revolutionary war commanding troops in battle.

  • Georges Danton

    Georges Danton
    Georges led the Radical government of Paris. He mobilized violent actions for the revolution. He also was the first president of the committee of Safety.

  • Execution of Louis XIV

    Execution of Louis XIV
    Louis XIV was hung at the place de la Revolution in Paris. he was unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolution government. He was found guilty of treason. Many people did not like the decisions he made.

  • Jean-Paul Marot

    Jean-Paul Marot
    Jean-Paul was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. He was a journalist and politician during the Revolution. He was a vigorous defender and seen as a racial voice. He was assassinated.

  • Napoleon invades Russia

    Napoleon invades Russia
    Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army