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nobility forcces king louis XVI call the estate general into session
the king was in trouble. the nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. nobility wanted to pass the coast once again on the third estate. -
Estate general meets in paris
king louis xvi calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd estate. had not meet in 175 years. -
3rd estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order
by establishing itself as national assembly granted itself control over taxation. shortly parties of other estate joined the coused withe the hope of just a bit of liberty and exuitable at tax burden. -
tennis court oath
king push to disstrous measure the representative of the nation bind themselves to the public good and the interests of the father land with solemn oath. -
the storming of the bastille
the medieval fortress and prison in paris royal authority in center of paris. the prison contained seven inmate at the time of its storming. it fall to the flash point of french revolution. -
great fear begins
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
national assembly abolishes feudalism with agust decrees
On the night of August 4 1789, the French Assemblée Constituante voted unanimously to abolish feudalism. In this paper I discuss some intensely interactive aspects of this process of collective decision-making and of the events that led up to it. -
declaration of the rights of man
The representatives of the French people, constituted as a National Assembly, and considering that ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public misfortunes and governmental corruption, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man: so that by being constantly present to all the members of the social body this declaration may always remind them of their rights and duties; so that by being liable at every -
women of paris march to versailles for bread
an angry mob of 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. To the beat of a drum, the women chanted “Bread! Bread!” – for, despite the fertile French soil, the populace of Paris was starving while the remote Louis XVI and the much-hated Marie Antoinette continued to feast like proverbial kings and queens at their salubrious country gaffe. -
royal family flight from varennes
The Flight to Varennes served as a major journee because it showed the National Assembly as well as the French people, that Louis XVI could no longer be trusted. While the Assembly had every intention of creating a limited or constitutional monarchy, -
new constitution adopted
One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty, following the steps of the United States of America -
beginning of legislative assembly
The Legislative Assembly was driven by two opposing groups. The members of the first group were primarily moderate members of the bourgeoisie that favored a constitutional monarchy, represented by the Feuillants, who felt that the revolution had already achieved its goal.[1] The second group was the democratic faction, for whom the king could no longer be trusted, represented by the new members of the Jacobin club.[2] This group claimed that more revolutionary measures were necessary.[ -
brunswick manifesto warn that royal family must not be harmed or else
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. It was a measure intended to intimidate Paris, but rather helped further spur the increasingly radical French Revolution and finally led to the war between revolutionary France and counter-revolutionary monarchies. -
storming of the tuileries palace
The Austrians and their Prussian allies were advancing fast into French territory. Reports of their atrocities spread to Paris. Along their path, villages were set ablaze, women were violated by entire battalions, civilians were slaughtered. Patriots volunteered to defend the Nation at this hour of desperate need. From the perspective of the King and Queen, the Austrians and Prussians would restore the monarchy under its traditional form, and their rapid success was welcome news. -
french monarchy is offically abolished
revolutionary gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first republic. royal family imprisoned. -
french defeat foreign invader (august and prussia) who are attempting to preserve the monarchy.
france turn the tide of the war and take the offensive against the invaders. -
the execution of king louis xvi in paris
Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being deposed and executed in 1793. -
committee of public safety established
The Committee of Public Safety succeeded the previous Committee of General Defence (established in January 1793) and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. -
law of suspects passes beginning of the reign of terror in france
authorized the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death. This legislation in effect made the penal justice system into the enforcement arm of the revolutionary government, -
end of the reign of terror execution of rebespierre
The Thermidorian Reaction was a revolt in the French Revolution against perceived excesses of the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote of the National Convention to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and several other leading members of the Terror. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution. -
national convention is dissolved and the creation of the directorate
The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792). The Convention numbered 749 deputies, including businessmen, tradesmen, and many professional men. -
napoleon named first consul
The coup of 18 Brumaire (often simply 18 Brumaire or Brumaire) was the coup d'état by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the French Republican Calendar. -
coronation of napoleon bonaparte as emperor of france
The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The painting has imposing dimensions, as it is almost ten metres wide by approximately six metres tall. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution.
