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Assembly of Notables
King Louis XVI´s ministers attempted to introduce financial reforms, but this assembly, led by noblemen and ecclesiastics, rejected them. -
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French Revolution
It was a social and political revolution lead by the Third State due to social discontent because of the privileges that the nobility and the clergy had. -
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The end of the Old Regime
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Estates-General
This assembly was formed by all three estates. People from the three estates presented their problems to the assembly in Lists of Grievances. -
National Assembly
The representatives of the Third Estate formed the National Assembly because they considered thet they were the only legitimate representatives of the French people. They met in an indoor tennis court and took the Tennis Court Oath to stay together until France had a constitution. They became known as the National Constituent Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
Bastille was a fortress that had become a prison and a symbol of absolutism. After this event, the National Constituent Assembly introduced a series of measures that marked the end of th Old Regime. -
Abolition of feudal rights
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This was a statement of principles in support of personal liberty, ecuality before the law and the right of property. -
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Opposition to the constitutional monarchy
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France's first Constitution
This constitution ended absolutism, establishing a constitutional monarchy. Under the separation of powers, legisalative power was held by the Assembly, executive power by the king and judicial power by independent courts.
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Austria and Prussia declared war on France
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The birth of the French Republic
After the insurrection of August 1792, a National Convention governed France from September 1792. This assembly was elected by male citizens. The Convention immediately abolished the monarchy, and France became a republic.
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Attack on the Tuileries Palace
The Tuileries Palace attacked, and the royal family was taken prisoner. -
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War in the Vendée
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The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794), also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Louis XVI's execution
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Robespierre execution
Robepierre gradually lost support. In 1974, moderate revolutionaries arrested Robespierre and his followers, who were executed by guillotine. -
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The Directory
Following the execution of the most radical revolutionaries, a new Constitution(1795) established limited suffrage based on ownership. A moderate government was led by a five-member Directory while legislative powe was held by two chambers. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte's victories
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Second Coalition
France's enemies, led by Britain, reconquered many of the regions that France had occupied. -
Napoleon's coup d'état
After this, a Consulate was created, in which authority was supposed to be shared between three consuls; but in fact Napoleon was the real ruler of France.
