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Estates General
In a final act of desperation, Louis XVI decided in 1789 to convene the Estates-General, an ancient assembly consisting of three different estates that each represented a portion of the French population. If the Estates-General could agree on a tax solution, it would be implemented. However, since two of the three estates—the clergy and the nobility—were tax-exempt, the attainment of any such solution was unlikely.Moreover, the outdated rules of order for the Estates-General gave each estate a -
National Assembly formed
The third estate realizes that its number gave an automatic advantage. Therefore, the Third Estate declared itself the sovereign National Assembly. Within days of the announcement, many members of the other two estates had switched allegiances over to this revolutionary new assembly. -
The tennis court oath
On the morning of June 20th 1789, the deputies of the third estate were locked and was guarded by royal troops. Interpreting this as hostile move by the king and his ministers, the National Assembly proceeded to the nearest available space, one of Versailles’ indoor tennis courts. Gathering on the floor of this court, the 577 deputies took an oath. They swor that they would not relent in their efforts until a new constitution had been agreed upon -
Revolution broke out(Storming of the Bastille)
Due to extravagent spending in the country, most people suffer from high taxes, people also suffer from poor food harvest, cattle disease and sky-rocketing bread prices. Moreover people's voices are oppresed and people are discontented with the unfair monarchy system. Therefore a revolution broke out as people seek for change. In Paris, citizens stormed the city’s largest prison, the Bastille, in pursuit of arms. In the countryside, peasants and farmers revolted against their feudal contracts by -
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French Revolution Timeline
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The assembly released the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which established a proper judicial code and the autonomy of the French people and examines human and cival rights. -
The women's mark on versailles
An angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. Women were discontented while the poor are suffering from starvation, nobility and monarchy such as Louis XVI and the much-hated Marie Antoinette continued to feast like proverbial kings and queens at their salubrious country gaffe. -
Flight to Varennes
The flight to Varennes was the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791. Appalled by the growing radicalism of the revolution, particularly its anti-clericalism, Louis XVI agreed to abscond from the city. The plan, hatched by Count Axel von Fersen and supported by Marie Antoinette, was to travel by coach to Montmedy, a fortress near the border with Germany that was garrisoned by royalist troops. -
the 10 August
The day of 10 August (French: journée) resulted in the fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly, which was suspended. -
The september massacre
In the september massacre, there were mass killing of prisoners that took place in Paris from September 2 to September 6 in 1792—a major event of what is sometimes called the “First Terror” of the French Revolution. -
The execution of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the "Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. This is event also refelcts the fall of the monarchy. -
The reign of terror
The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794),also known as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution. There was mass executions of "enemies of the revolution" included King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine, and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Execution of Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a politician and was an important figure during the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended a few months after his arrest and execution in July 1794 following the Thermidorian reaction. The Thermidorians accused him of being the "soul" of the Terror, although his guilt in the brutal excesses of the Terror has not been proven. -
French Directory
Directory, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. -
The end of Directory
The Directory suffered from widespread corruption. The Directory and the French Revolution itself came to an end with the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) in which General Napoléon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate.
