The French Revolution

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    The Moderate Phase

  • The Estates-General meets at Versailles

    The First, Second, and Third estate is meet at Versailles and discuss over the issue of whether to count by head or give estate equal votes

  • The National Assembly

    The dispute over votes in the Estates-General leads deputies of the Third Estate to declare themselves the National Assembly. Along with some members of the clergy, they threaten to proceed without the other two estates.

  • The Tennis Court Oath

    Royal officials lock the National Assembly out of their regular meeting hall; members of the assembly occupy the king’s indoor tennis court. They take what comes to be known as the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to disperse until they give France a new constitution.

  • The Storming of the Bastille

    Amid the Great Fear of July 1789, when Parisians were panicked about the possibility of the aristocracy overthrowing the Third Estate, a large crowd seizes the Bastille prison, which is a symbol of royal tyranny.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    The National Constituent Assembly introduces the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a document that shares Enlightenment influences with the Declaration of Independence. The king refuses to sanction it, resulting in Parisians marching to Versailles and forcing the royal family back to Paris.
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    Radical Phase

  • National Convention

    A new assembly, the National Convention, meets, abolishes the monarchy, and establishes a republic.

  • The Jacobins rise to power

  • Louis XVI is executed

    Louis XVI, judged by the convention, is executed for treason.

  • Reign of Terror under Robespierre

    a violent period during the French Revolution, marked by mass executions of people deemed "enemies of the revolution" by the radical Jacobin government, primarily led by Maximilien Robespierre, where thousands were publicly guillotined under the justification of protecting the revolution from internal threats, leading to a period of widespread fear and paranoia
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    Conservative Phase

  • Reign of Terror ends

    The Reign of Terror ended as Robespierre was executed on July 28, 1794.

  • The Directory rises to power

    November 2, 1795, the Directory of France was formed. It protected people who had the idea of revolution and supported them.

  • Napoleon overthrows the directory

    The coup of 18/19 Brumaire in the Year VIII of the republican calendar is generally taken to mark the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of Napoleon Bonaparte's dictatorship.