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National Constituent Assembly
The Constituent faced was a historical French parliaments or houses of parliament, they were numerous crises until it disbanded. He even sought to flee the country for which he was suspended and eventually reinstated. This body also wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the Constitution of 1791 and tried to face up to the fiscal crisis by issuing new legal tender, the assignats. Constituent Assembly was the first real legislature in French history. -
Formal opening of the Estates General
In France under the Ancienor Regime, the Estates General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different estates. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates (clergy, nobility and commoners). It served as an advisory body to the king, primarily by presenting petitions from the various estates and consulting on fiscal policy.The Estates General first met in 1302 and 1303 in relation to King Philip IV's conflict with the papacy. -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a key moment that set off the French Revolution. It set off the French Revolution. It also was based upon the premise that political authority came from the will of the nation, not from the king. It took place in a royal tennis court at Versailles some six weeks into the Estates General. There, more than 500 members of the Third Estate and a scattering of liberal nobles and clergymen swore “the true principles of monarchy” and “the regeneration of public order. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming Bastille, was a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny. Was attacked by a crowd mainly consisting of lower classes. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which the Bourbon monarchs, King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed. The anniversary is still celebrated in France as the country’s national holiday. -
The August Decrees
Were a set of 19 articles passed by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution which abolished feudalism in France and ended the tax privileges of the upper classes. Although not without flaws, the passage of the decrees was a significant achievement of the Revolution. This decision took place in the context of the Great Fear, rural peasant revolt fueled by rumors of an aristocrats to starve or burn out the population. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Marked the beginning of a new political era. Since then, it has never ceased to be a reference text. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles. Its 17 articles, adopted between August 20 and August 26, by France’s National Assembly. -
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Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly, national parliament of France during part of the Revolutionary period.
The Legislative Assembly inherited government at a time when there were grave doubts about the intentions of the king and the workability of the new constitution. It was characterized by the struggle over the direction of the revolution, either towards a constitutional monarchy or a republic without a monarch. Among its legislative achievements was making clerics to fail to register Civil Constitution. -
The Flight to Varennes
is the name given to the royal family’s failed escape from Paris in June 1791. Dissatisfied with the course of the revolution, particularly its attacks on the Catholic church, King Louis XVI acceded to suggestions that it was time to flee the capital. Though well hatched, the plan failed and the royal family were arrested at Varennes, some 240 kilometres from Paris. His actions had destroyed his last vestiges of support and Parisians began to talk seriously about a republic. -
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National Convention
National Convention was revolutionary France’s third attempt at a national legislature. Assembly that governed France during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy. The Convention numbered 749 deputies, including businessmen, tradesmen, and many professional men. Among its early acts were the formal abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic. -
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1st French Republic
The insurrection, of course did not, stop the Prussian advance on the capital. As enthusiastic contingents of volunteers left for the front, fear of counterrevolutionary plots gripped the capital. The prisons bursting with vagrants and criminals as well as refractory clergy and royalists and asked what would happen if traitors forced open the jails and released these hordes of fanatics and brigands. In response, Parisians took the law into their own hands with an orgy of mass lynching. -
The Assembly declares war on Austria
The monarchs of Europe had looked on with increasing concern at the events unfolding in France. Leopold II who worried for his sister Marie Antoinette. The Assembly, deliberating on the formal proposition of the king, considering that the Court of Vienna, in contempt of treaties, has not ceased to grant open protection to rebel Frenchmen, that it prompted and took concerted action with several European powers against the independence and safety of the French nation -
Storming of the Tuileries Palace
The Storming of the Tuileries Palace, was a defining moment in the French Revolution that saw the armed revolutionaries of Paris invade the residence of King Louis XVI of France in the capital and the location of the Legislative Assembly, and massacre his Swiss Guards. Marked by scenes of slaughter and debauched violence, the attack on the Tuileries produced rapid and radical political change, bringing to an end the constitutional monarchy formed in 1791. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The trial and execution of King Louis XVI of France was one of the most impactful events of the French Revolution. In December 1792, the former king, now referred to as Citizen Louis Capet, was tried and found guilty of numerous crimes that amounted to high treason, and he was sentenced to death by guillotine the 21 of January of 1793. The death of Louis XVI marked the death of the Ancien Régime and ended a millennium of uninterrupted of French monarchy. -
Execution of Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793, he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, and the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign. On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd. -
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Directory
The French Directory, or Directorate, was the government of France, a period that spanned the last four years of the French Revolution (1789-1799). The Directory was unpopular, despite military successes, and faced economic crises and social unrest. It was ultimately toppled in the Coup of 18 Brumaire. Began auspiciously with a successful constitutional plebiscite and a general amnesty for political prisoners.