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Estates General Meeting
-The Clergy and Nobles each had a vote in the meeting.
-The 3rd estate, Bourgeoisie, had one vote in this meeting but was composed of many people
-The Bourgeoisie wanted to change the voting procedures but were outvoted when the king sided with the Noble and Clergy -
National Assembly
-The 3rd estate voted to establish the National Assembly
-Suggestions were made to make new legislature and to represent all the french people
-Viewed as first act of the French Revolution
-The 3rd estate pushed for a constitutional monarchy -
Tenis Court Oath
-The last room the National Assembly had a meeting in was guarded by soldiers
-Therefore they had the meeting in a tennis court where they pledge not to disband until they had a new legislature written -
Storming of the Bastille
-Citizens all came together, rampaged, and killed people in the Bastille
-stole an estimated 300,000 lbs of gun powder
-They dismantled this prison fort and went against their king
-Some officers that were in the prison were decapitated during this act -
Women's March on Versailles
-Thousands of women marched to Versailles and demanded bread
-These women were armed with pikes, sticks, and scythes
-These women went into the royal apartments and killed guards but wanted Marie Antoinette
-The crowd was calmed by making the king stay at Paris
-The Royal Family was captured -
Etta Palm d'Aelders' Address
-Etta Palm d'welders was a Dutch feminist that spoke out during the French Revolution
-She proposed a network of clubs for women, to administer welfare through France, and her attempts were unsuccessful
-She addressed the French National Convention with her speech "Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favour of Men, at the Expense of Women" -
Declaration of the Rights of Women
-Olympe de Gouges (playwright) began to write political pamphlets and eventually created the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen, challenging male authority
-Was shared with attacking the regime of Maxilmilien Robespierre and was sentenced to death -
Royal Family Attempt to Escape
-In the dark of the night, the Royal Family attempted to escape to the closest border and take back their kingdom
-They were discovered, arrested, and brought back to Paris -
Pauline Leon's Petition
-Pauline Leon (a chocolate-maker from Paris) submitted a petition signed by over 300 women to the National Assembly
-It asked for permission for women to be given the right to bear arms. -Her request was denied. -
France declares war on Austria
-France declares war on Hapsburg monarchs
-France did poorly against Prussia and Austria at first in the Austrian Netherlands
-French forces broke and fled in the first encounter with Austria and Prussia
-Rumors of treason by king and queen spread -
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September Massacres
-Mass killing of prisoners in Paris
-A major event of what is sometimes called the First Terror of the French Revolution -
End of Monarchy
-Louis XVI with his family are placed under arrest
-Stories were told that counter revolutionaries were plotting with Austria and Prussia
-The people responded to this by entering prisons and killing half the people they found. -
Execution of Louis XVI
-Tried for treason
-By a narrow majority the Convention sentenced him to death
-Louis died with the newly invented guillotine, which is said to be the most efficient way to die -
Madame Roland Arrested
-Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere wrote about how it was a woman's inferior education that was to blame for their lack of political involvement
-Hosted meetings of the Brissotins, a political group that invited women to join
-She was eventually arrested for her political activism, but during she was in prison, she was provided with writing materials, which led her to publish her memoirs, by smuggling her writings out with her guests -
Society of Revolutionary Republican Women Formed
-Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon founded the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women
-It lasted less than 5 months, but it forced the issue of women's inequality into the light
-There were up to 180 women attending the meeting and many of these took part in revolts and uprisings -
Death of Marat
-Charlotte Corday stabbed Jean-Paul Marat to death in his bathtub
-She believed Marat was a threat to the Republic of France and despised him for his opinions, publications, and feared civil war -
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Reign of Terror
-France was ruled by a group of men called the Committee of Public Safety
-Began with a declaration by Robespierre that Terror would be "the order of the day"
-Many people die during this time for the little things
-Thousands of people during this time are sent to the guillotine and die
-Ended on July 27 when Robespierre was removed from power and executed -
Marie Antoinette is Executed
-The last queen of France's hair is cut and she is forced into a carriage, which drove through the streets of Paris
-She was executed by the guillotine -
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Napoleon Takes Over
-He crushes rebels that oppose the National convention
-Overthrows the directory and becomes first counsel of France
-Crowns himself Emperor of France
-These acts signal the end of the revolution and bring forth a new era
