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Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles
The Clergy, nobility, and commoners both heads to meet Versailles. High ranking clergy and nobles paid no taxes. While everyone else pays taxes. -
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Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet.
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king. -
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Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting
The Third Estate is for everyone such as artisans, peasants, merchants, city workers, and many more. They pay taxes unlike nobles and High-ranking clergy. All taxes are paid in the burdens. -
5. Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution
He ordered the three estates to meet together as the National Assembly and vote, by population, on a constitution for France. The Third Estate relocated to a nearby tennis court where its members vowed to stay together and create a written constitution for France. -
The people of Paris storm the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris
Following the Women’s March on Versailles, the royal family was forced to return to Paris. They remained virtual prisoners in the Tuileries, the official residence of the king. Louis XVI became emotionally paralyzed, leaving most important decisions to the queen. At her insistence, Louis committed himself and his family to a disastrous attempt of escape from the capital to the eastern frontier on June 21, 1791. -
The End of The Regin Of Terror
In July 1794 Robespierre was arrested and executed as were many of his fellow Jacobins, thereby ending the Reign of Terror, which was succeeded by the Thermidorian Reaction. -
The Directory
Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. -
Who ended the French Revolution?
Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution was not a single event but a series of developments that unfolded between 1789 and 1799.