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French Revolution
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Meeting of the Estates General
Three classes were represented in the Estates Genereal, Clergy, Nobility, and the third estate. They each got one vote, but the clergy, and nobility overruled the third estate's vote. The third estate decided to create their own National Assembly. They met at a tennis court where they stayed until their constiitution was written. This is known as the tennis court oath. -
Storming of the Bastille
The partisan's of the third estate early that day stormed the Hotel des Invalides to get weapons, but had no gunpowder. They stormed the Bastille to get ammunition. The Bastille was a prison in the center of Paris, and at the time only seven inmates were being held there. -
French Bill of Rights created by National Assembly
The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen is a fundamental document of the french revolution and in the history of human rights. This document was influenced by Thomas Jefferson. the preamble describes the qualities as being natural, unalienable, and sacred. The second article describes the qualities as being "the natural and imprescritible rights of man." This is defined as liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. -
March to Versailles
The peasant women of Paris marched to Versailled in protest against the sepatarations of the third and first class. They stormed the building, forcing King Louis XVI and the rest of the royal family to move to Paris. -
Guillotine Invented by Joseph
The guillotine is an apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading. It has a a tall frame with a weighted and angled blade at the top, which is suspended. This invention was made to for humane executions which are fast and painless. -
Flight to Varennes
The king and queen left france heading for Austria, where they thought they could seek refuge until absolute monarchy was restored. At this time King Louis XVI denounced the revolution. This was when the National assembly was putting together their constitiution. People in the town of Varennes recognized them, and they were sent back to france, known as a king against the new constitution of France. -
Newly elected Legislative Assembly declared war on Prussia, and Austria.
The legislative assembly thought tha Austria was going to re-instate king Louis XVI on the throne. They had to act fast to defend their new republic. Austria and Prussia quickly marched into Paris under Charles William Ferdinand, the duke of Brunswick. This war left France in devastion, with food shortages, and high poverty. -
Attack on the Tuileries Palace
Twenty-thousand people attacked the Tuileries palace to capture the king. The queen and king fled to the Legislative Assembly building. Swiss guards try to defend the palace, but surrender to save themselves. -
King Louis XIV guillotined
He was executed at the Place de la Revolution which was formerly the Place de la Concorde. Louis was arrested after the attack on Tuileries. He was tried for high treason before the national convention. The blade fell at 10:22 that morning. -
"The Terror
"The terror" refers to the time form 1793-1800 when 30,000 people across France were sentenced to the guillotine. The first victim was Marie Antoinette who was famously exectued.
