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National Constituent Assembly
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Formal opening of the Estates General
Was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France, to deal with financial and societal crises.It ended with the Third Estate breaking from royal authority and forming a National Assembly. -
Tennis Court Oath
Dramatic event of defiance by representatives of the non-privileged classes of the French Nation during the meeting of the Estates-General. The deputies of the Third Estate, knew that they would be outvoted by the two privileged orders. Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles, they moved to a indoor tennis court.There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolizing the oppressiveness of France’s Ancien Régime, was attacked by a group of people mainly composed by sans-culottes. This event culminate multiple different causes. -
The August Decrees
The National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 decrees or articles concerning the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility, and seigneurial rights. This decision was taked in the context of the Great Fear(rural peasant revolt). The violence continued for a year. Under the original decree, peasants were supposed to pay for the release of seigneurial taxes. So many peasants refused and in 1793 the obligation was cancelled. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Was born based on an idea of the constituent Assembly. There where many proposals. The Assembly commissioned five deputies:Démeunier, La Luzerne, Tronchet, Mirabeau and Redon, that examinated the declaration proyects, combining it into once and presented to the Assembly. -
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Legislative Assembly
It replaced the National Constituent Assembly and was itself replaced by the National Convention. The Legislative Assembly immediately found itself in a perilous position -
The Flight to Varennes
Was a historical event in wich King Louis XVI of France, his wife Queen Marie Antoinette and their children tried to escape from Paris on the night. The went to Varennes where they were arrested and returned to Paris. The constituent Assembly tried to save face by making it appear that the king was kidnaped instead that he scaped. The citizens didnt trusted them, and this increased the mentality of the idea of republicanism. -
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1st French Republic
From 1793-1794 mark the Reign of Terror, a period of mass executions. In October of 1795, France establishes the new Directory. Also in October of 1795, Napoleon an emerging military officer, is placed in charge of troops sent to control a royalist riot in Paris and is soon given command of the French army. By 1796, French wars continue to infest Europe. Napoleon launches his Italian Campaign, surprises Austrian troops and attacks successfully, proving to be a strong and influential leader -
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National Convention
Was an assembly that governed France. The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy. The struggles between two opposing Revolutionary factions, the Montagnards and the Girondins, dominated the first phase of the Convention. The Montagnards favoured granting the poorer classes more political power, while the Girondins favoured a bourgeois republic.Girondins were purged from the Convention and The Montagnards controlled it -
The Assembly declares war on Austria
France and Austria had a complicated relationship in the second half of the 1700s. They were allies, but
they were both battling for control over European lands. Austria was concious of the happenings in
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Storming of the Tuileries Palace
Was an important moment that saw the armed revolutionaries of Paris invade the residence of King Louis XVI of France and massacre his Swiss Guards. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Was an impact on the French Revolution. He was sentenced of numerous crimes that amounted to high treason, and he was sentenced to death by guillotine. Was the first and only execution of a French king -
Execution of Robespierre
Robespierre presided over the Reign of Terror, a bloody phase of the French Revolution in which thousands of citizens were executed by guillotine. 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 to the Place de la Révolution where they were executed -
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Directory
was the government of France. The Directory was unpopular, despite military successes,and faced economic crises and social unrest. Established in response to the chaotic and bloody Reign of Terror the Directory sought to restore stability to France by resurrecting the initial revolutionary principles of 1789.Meanwhile, French military victories in the French Revolutionary Wars put more influence and power into the hands of generals like Napoleon who began interfering in national politics -
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The Consulate
French government established after the Coup of 18–19 Brumaire.The Constitution of the Year VIII created an executive consisting of three consuls, but the First Consul, Napoleon wielded all real power, while the other two, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès and Pierre-Roger Ducos were figureheads. The principles of representation and legislative supremacy were discarded. -
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The Napoleonic Era
Napoleon ruled for 15 years, closing out the quarter-century so dominated by the French Revolution. His own ambitions were to establish a solid dynasty within France and to create a French-dominated empire in Europe. He was almost constantly at war, with Britain his most dogged opponent but Prussia and Austria also joining successive coalitions. Napoleonic France directly annexed territories in the Low Countries and western Germany, applying revolutionary legislation in full. -
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The Empire
Also known as Napoleonic France,was the empire ruled by Napoleon,who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.Although France had already established a colonial empire the French state had remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution.On 18 May 1804,Napoleon was granted the title Emperor and was crowned on 2 December 1804 signifying the end of the French Consulate and of the French First Republic -
Battle of Trafalgar
naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, which established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years.It was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar under Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve.A fleet of 33 ships (18 French and 15 Spanish) fought a British fleet of 27 ships. At the end of September 1805, Villeneuve had received orders to leave Cádiz and land troops at Naples to support the French campaign in southern Italy. -
Battle of Austerlitz
the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians forcing Austria to make peace with France and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the anti-French alliance. The battle took place near Austerlitz in Moravia after the French had entered Vienna on November 13 and then pursued the Russian and Austrian allied armies into Moravia -
Battle of Leizpig
Was a decisive defeat of Napoleon, wich was the result of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. Was fought between Frenchs and other troops of Napoleon, and allied troops including Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and Swedish forces. -
Battle of Waterloo
Was the Napoleons final defeat. It was fought during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s restoration, between the Napoleons troops and the combined forces of the duke of Wellington’s allied army, and also Prussians.