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For Bread
In October 1789, thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising price of bread. Brandishing knives, axes, and other weapons, the women marched on Versailles. First, they demanded that the National Assembly take action to provide bread. Then they turned their anger on the king and queen. They broke into the palace, killing some of the guards. The women demanded that Louis and Marie Antoinette return to Paris. After some time, Louis agreed. -
Estates General
Because King Louis XVI of France called the meeting because he wanted to increase taxes on civilians. But all the people were angry because he ignored the people at the third level. This is the beginning of the French Revolution. -
Capture the Bastille
Angry at the outcome of the three-level conference, the people stormed the bastille, a symbol of oppression. This is the first time that the people in revolt. -
The change of the French nobility
Throughout the night of August 4, 1789, noblemen made grand speeches, declaring their love of liberty and equality. Motivated more by fear than by idealism, they joined other members of the National Assembly in sweeping away the feudal privileges of the First and Second Estates, thus making commoners equal to the nobles and the clergy. This is the first time that French government concession. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The declaration of human rights (issued on August 26, 1789), was a framework document issued during the French revolution.
There is still no consensus in academia on this. Among them, freedom, property, security and resistance to oppression were declared as inalienable human rights, the freedom of speech, faith, writing was affirmed. This is the first book of the French people's freedom. -
The afraid of the French
Monarchs and nobles in many European countries watched the changes taking place in France with alarm. They feared that similar revolts might break out in their own countries. In fact, some radicals were keen to spread their revolutionary ideas across Europe. As a result, some countries took action. Austria and Prussia, for example, urged the French to restore Louis to his position as an absolute monarch. The Legislative Assembly responded by declaring war in April 1792. -
Louis XIV's death
The National Convention had reduced Louis XVI’s role from that of a king to that of a common citizen and prisoner. Now, guided by radical Jacobins, it tried Louis for treason. The Convention found him guilty, and, by a very close vote, sentenced him to death. On January 21, 1793, the former king walked with calm dignity up the steps of the scaffold to be beheaded by a machine called the guillotine. He is the first king be executed by the people. -
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The battle of valmi, an important battle during the French bourgeois revolution.On September 20, 1792, the revolutionary army of the underclass of France, the "trouserless men", defeated the prussians and austrians in the village of valmi in the province of marne and reversed the dangerous situation. From then on, the French army began to turn into a full-line counterattack and soon regained all the lost territory. This battle the other country that French is come up. -
The death of Marat
Marat was a thin, high-strung, sickly man whose revolutionary writings stirred up the violent mood in Paris. During the summer of 1793, Charlotte Corday, a supporter of a rival faction whose members had been jailed, gained an audience with Marat by pretending to have information about traitors. Once inside Marat’s private chambers, she fatally stabbed him as he bathed. For her crime, Corday went to the guillotine. A great revolutionist fall on this day -
Robespierre death
In July 1794, fearing for their own safety, some members of the National Convention turned on Robespierre. They demanded his arrest and execution. The Reign of Terror, the radical phase of the French Revolution, ended on July 28, 1794, when Robespierre went to the guillotine. The people begin to have their own thought.
