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The forming of the national assembly
The delegates of the third estate had become fed up with the rule of the monarchy, and had a meeting of all the delegates to form the national assembly. Their job was to pass laws and reforms for the good for the French people. -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate delegates wished to draw up a new constitution, but found they were locked out of the meeting place. they broke the doors into the tennis courts and wrote this constitution. -
Storming the Bastille
Rumors around paris that the king was going to use millitary force to dismiss the national assembly angered the citizens and people began to gather weapons to defend the city against the attack. On July 14 the people of Paris looking for gunpowder stormed and seized the building. The people began tearing the building apart, tearing away the reminder of a corrupt monarchy. -
Rallying the people
The nobleman of France had made speaches about liberty and equality, and joined the national assembly. They took away the priviledges of the first and second estates, and this made common people just as equal as nobles and the clergy -
The guillotine was invented
The guillotine was invented to punish people who were dishonest or broke a law and their punishment was to be beheaded by the guillotine -
War breaks out
War breaks out in France where 20000 men and women attack the tuileries.Tuileries are places where the royal family lives. -
Louis XVL walks to the guillotine
Louis walks up to the guillotine to be beheaded because of his horrible leadership skills that cause the people to starve -
The ending of the French Revolution
The French revolution ended after Robespierre went to the guillotine
