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The Great Fear
This was a period of panic and riot by the third estate and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. -
The Tennis Court Oath
On June 20, 1789, the French Revolution was beginning as the Third Estate defied the king and swore not to disperse until France had been given a new constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille was a prison at the time it only had 7 prisoners. The Bastille was attacked because the third estate demanded that the military leader of the Bastille hand over the gun powder, the soldiers were getting scared and fired into the crowd. This is when the fighting had began. The turning point was when the soldiers had joined the third estate. -
The French Revolution
This is when the French Revolution started. -
The National Constituent Assembly
The National Assembly was created amidst the confusion of the Estates General that Louis XVI called in 1789 to deal with the looming economic crisis in France. The National Constituent Assembly is remembered for passing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August of 1789. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This document is the French version of the Declaration Of Independence -
The Guillotine
This machine was created by Guillotine and used to behead people, first they would lay the person (who had a previous title (king queen)or spoke against the Jacobs club) down neck to the sky then let go of the rope holding the blade in the sky then they would put the body in this wooden caskets type thing. Some times they would hold the head into the crowd by their hair. -
No More Rulers!!
This was a day when all the Kings and Queens in France were no longer Kings and Queens, King Louis XVI was just Louis and Queen Marie was just Marie. -
Escape?!
King Louis and his emediate family tried to escape France, he thought he wouldnt get caught and after the figthing was over he would come back and everyone would want a King to rule over them, but he was caught and was retured to Paris. -
Bye Bye Louis
King Louis XVI is executed.He died from Gangrene, a skin condition when your skin tissue dies. -
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The Reign of Terror
A period after the First French Republic was established in which multiple massacres and public executions occurred in response to revolutionary fervor. This was also a time when more people were getting guillotine crazy more and more people were getting beheaded. -
Last Victim
Maximilien Robepierre was the last victim (of the French Revolution) he was beheaded because he called for King Louis XVI to be put on trial for treason and won many enemies (17000), but the people of Paris consistently came to his defense -
End of the French Revolution
This is the end of the revolution.
