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Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution
Why did Louis XVI call the National Assembly?
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet.
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General -
3. Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting
King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting because they were demanding more power in the government because they made up 97% of the population in France -
Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles
This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country -
Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath
Fearing a royalist conspiracy, the Third Estate responded by gathering in a nearby tennis court -
the storming of the bastille
french citizens rise up and take over the bastille
they free the prsioners and take the needed gunpoweder .
they then tear it down , brick by brick -
The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris