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Meeting of the Estates-General
France had needed a way to get money, so Louis XVI called for the estates general because he was very desperate to solve Frances issues. It was a general assembly meeting for France's 3 classes. -
Storming of the Bastille
Paridians heard that troops had been leaving Versailles and were going into a panic because they were assuming that the French monarchy had been turning on them so they stormed the military fortress. They took over and killed the royal governor. -
The Great Fear
The start and end date of The Great Fear is unclear, but it was a period of panick and riot because they had grown in fear of their lives after the Storming of Bastille. -
Declaration of Rights and Man and Citzen
The Declaration of Rights and man and citizen was the principle that all men are born and remain free and equal in rights. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The civil constitution of the Clergy was an event that allowed the state to assume control and some aspects of religion. IT had included funding clerical salaries and the responsibility for education -
Flight of Royal Family to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes was the kings decision to flee because he had a lack of faith in the revolution. -
National Convention makes France a Radical Republic
this was the first assembly in France elected by universal male suffrage and had been the time where Frances new constitution was decided. -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed
The event where both Louis and Marie Antoinette were executed with a guillotine -
Thermidorian Reaction puts directory in power
resulted in the fall of the Maximilen Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the reigon of terror in france.