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Poor Gov.
Louis XVI's government going poor, and a time with poor harvests. -
Bastille
Paris stormed Bastille, a hated prison that equaled/represented autocratic rule. -
The great fear
The great fear began, a time of the french revolution when the peasants feared the nobles. -
DotRoMatC
The National assembly adopts the declaration of the rights of man and citizen. -
Versailles
Peasants storm Versailles and demand King Louis XVI and the queen. -
jalés
First counter-revolutionary assembly at Jales -
Radicals,etc
Created Radicals, moderates, and conservatives. -
NA makes new rules
Assembly declares King inviolable and restores his prerogatives. -
NA Dispands
The National assembly dispands, creates legislator, and now the king has no law. -
Leaders betray
Revolution Leaders turn on each other. -
Jacobin
Jacobin Insurrection, again thwarted by gestures by the King, but Jacobins continue to defy the Assembly -
King's Trial
Trial of the king begins -
Guillotine time
King Louis XVI was executed... -
Girondists
Expulsion of the Girondists (the party of compromise) from all offices, the Commune of Paris becomes the centre of power -
Comittee of Public Safety
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator -
Jacobin
Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention. -
Royalists and Napoleon
Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot, The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon -
Emperor
Napoleon named as Emperor.
