-
The National Assenbly
There are three estates the first is full of clergy, the second is nobility, and the third is the rest of society -
Storming the bastille
The national assembly was having a meeting and the king sent his soldiers to watch over the meeting but the estates thought they came to stop to meeting so they stormed the Bastille -
Tennis court oath
Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established" -
legaslative assembly
Sans-culottes -
Radicals Take Over
Paris mob stormed Tuileries -
War with Austria
France
declares war War of the
First
Coalition Levee en
masse -
The National Convention
Monarchy abolished; France officially becomes a republic -
The Guillotine
Dr. Joseph Guillotin Intended as a more humane method of execution. -
Execution of the King
He went to the guillotine four days later on January 21, 1793 -
The Directory
Promoted middle class interests -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Popularity rises after victories over the Austrians -
Legacies of the French Revolution
Power of nobles ended