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Government fails to secure their natural rights (Locke) or satisfy the best interests of society. Citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey or change the leadership, through elections or other means.
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Revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the third estate (the common people) of the estates-general thereafter (until replaced by the legislative assembly on Sept.
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The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established."
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Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.
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Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly. Fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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Crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the French. The women thenceforth demanded that king Louis XVI distribute the bread that the women's march brought to an end the great monarchy of Versailles.
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Long after the revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment. Last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was executed by the guillotine.
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One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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Created by the National Convention and then restructured. Formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution.
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Created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years.
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French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution.
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The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years. It included a bicameral legislature.
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It was promulgated as the "Civil Code of the French", but was renamed "the Napoleonic Code" and once again after the Second French Empire.
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The first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 he established the French empire.
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The blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. Neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.
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Exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. Six years later, he died, most likely of stomach cancer.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Controlled most of Europe, defeated,exiled, escaped, reclaimed his title, met his final military defeat at Waterloo, was exiled again to the Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena. Died there six years later (stomach cancer) his body was returned to Paris.
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