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Louis’s Escape Fails
Louis XVI’s wife and others had been urging Louis to escape, one night Louis and his family boarded a coach that was to go north to the border. The king was dressed as a servant and his wife as a governess. This attempt to escape failed due to a man who held up a currency with the kings face on it and then ordered the king and his family to be escorted back to paris. -
Parisians Storm the Bastille
The people of Paris crowded around the Bastille and demanded weapons and gun powder that were believed to be held there. Them invading the Bastille was a wake-up call to Louis XVI, and started the Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
This was the first step to writing a constitution. The document was modeled in part on the American Declaration of Independence, written 13 years earlier. The declaration stated that all men were “born and remain free and equal in rights.” They enjoyed natural rights to “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.” -
Women March on Versailles
Around 6 thousand women traveled 13 miles by foot in pouring rain from there homes in Paris to the home of the royal family in Versailles. They arrived there with anger towards the Austrian-born queen, Marie Antoinette, due to her only interest being in her own life and not the lives of her people. The people then forced King Louis, his wife, and his son to return to live in Paris so they would no longer have to be far from there king. -
Declaration of Pillnitz
This declaration was issued at Pillnitz castle near Dresden by Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Frederick William ll of Prussia. These two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy. -
Constitution of 1791
This constitution limited monarchy in place of the absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries. The new legislative assembly had the power to make new laws, collect taxes, and decide on issues of war and peace. -
The Legislative Assembly takes office
The Legislative assembly toke office and when faced with crises at home and abroad, it survived for less than a year. This led to economic problems which fed renerwed turmoil. The revolutionary currency, dropped in value, causing prices to rise rapidly. Uncertainty about prices led to hoarding and caused additional food shortages. -
Declared war on Tyranny
The war of words between French revolutionaries and European monarchs turned into a war among the battlefield. Eager to spread the revolution and destroy tyranny abroad,the Legislative Assembly declared war first on Austria and then on Prussia, Britain, and other states. -
Invasion on the Tuileries palace
Around 10:00am French citizens gathered in about 30,000 and headed toward the Tuileries Palace to attempt and capture the King Louis XVI. This event occured after they had all had a meeting at the City Hall. Louis had recieved new of the angry mob so he gathered his family and decided to move to the Legislative Assembly building -
Convention Met
The convention that met was a more radical boy than earlier assemblies. They voted and abolished the monarchy and established a republic, the French repulbic.
