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Great fear
"a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate." -
Womens march to Versailles
"Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris." -
Attack on the Bastille
"The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris." -
Tennis court oath
The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution." -
Flight to Varennes
"The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette" -
jean- paul marot
" French political theorist, physician and scientist. He was a journalist and politician during the French Revolution. He was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes and seen as a radical voice." -
Marie Antoinette
last queen of France before the French Revolution. -
exicution of louis XVI
"The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris." -
Louis XVI
" the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789." -
Georges Danton
French Revolutionary leader and orator, often credited as the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy -
Reign of terror
"A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of “the enemies of the revolution.” -
Jaconins
"Jacobin was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution." -
sans-culottes
a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution. -
Jacques Necker
"Genevan banker who became a finance minister for Louis XVI and a French statesman. Necker played a key role in French history before and during the first period of the French Revolution." -
Napoleon Invades Russia
"The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army."
