The French Revolution

By demaestrikj

  • Agricultural Recession

    Landowners increase their sources of revenue: lower class works harder and gets taxed more.
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    Events Leading to it

  • France supports Patriots

    France supports the patriots in the American Revolution, leading to more national debt.
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    Various Years

    Wars are fought against Britain and Austria.
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    Various Years

    Lifestyle of monarchs, particularly the "sun king' Louis XIV, is extravagant, costly, and financed by taxes.

  • Tennis Court

    A few liberal nobles and many clergy join them them and swear the Tennis Court Oath.
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    Beginnings of the Revolution

  • Bastille

    The storming a citizens' Bastille.

  • Grande Peur

    Peasants start robbing and burning some of the chateaux (mansions) of the rich and burn records of money owned.

  • End of Feudalism

    The end of feudalism and serfdom in France was announced by the National Assembly.

  • Louis XVI sentenced to the guillotine.

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    Problems with the Revolution

  • Thermidorian Reaction

    Anarchy and inflation almost overwhelmed the country.

  • New Constitution

    Took effect after a reactionary rising in Vendemiare was suppressed by General Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • Parliament is purged ruthlessly

    Many deputies were labeled as royalists and spent to the penal colony of French Guinea.

  • French Revolution Ends

    The fall of the Directory heralds the end of the French Revolution.

  • Draft

    A national draft was issued calling for all able-bodied men to enlist in the army