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Estates General is Called
-Called because of financial crisis
-3 States: Nobility, Clergy, and Commons
-met to approve new taxes
-met a Versailles, 300 representatives from each state -
Tennis Court Oath
-Taken by the Deputies of the French National Assembly on June 20, 1789.
-Binded them together to work for the creation of the French Constitution. -
Bastille Day
-The Storming of Bastile
-July 14, 1789--French Independence Day
-Paris Garrison
-Mob wants gunpowder
-Symbol of political oppression -
Decleration of Rights of Man
-Passed by the National Constitutional Assembly
-Based on the concept of Sovereign Nation and General Will (Rousseau)
-Sets forth human liberty -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Passed by French Constituent Assembly
-It adapted the organization of the Catholic Church to administrative frame of local government.
-Purposes: Raise money, end special privileges of the clergy -
Trial and Death of Louis XVI
-Letters found in the Tuilleries
-December 11, 1792
-King is charged with treason
Louis XVI is beheaded on January 21, 1793 -
End to Reign of Terror
-Maximilion Robespierre
- Leader of the Jacobins
- Extreme Radical
-Followed Rousseau and believed he knew the "general will"
- "people must be forced to be free" -
9th of Thermidor
Enemies of Robespierre unite in the convention
He is arrested and guillotined