the french revolution and napoleon

  • bad harvests lead to food shortages

    bad harvests lead to food shortages
    The french economy,although it had been expanding for 50 yers,suffered periodic crises.Bad harvests in 1787 and 1788 and a slowdown in manufacturing led to food shortages,rsing prices for food,and unemployment
  • National Assembly adopts Declaration og the rights of man

    National Assembly adopts Declaration og the rights of man
    On the nmorning of 14,1789,a Parisian mob of some eight thousand men and women in search of weapons streamed toward the Bastille was also a state prision .