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CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
Moderate bourgeoisie.Proposals: end of A.Regime, a parliament by census suffrage and a constitution. -
General assembly
It represented the common people of France (also called the Third Estate) and demanded that the king make economic reforms to insure that the people had food to eat. -
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The French Revolution
The outbreak of the French Revolution meant the end of The Ancien Regime and absolutism.
A new society appeared; equality of all the citiznes before the law, no privileged classes...
It suppsed the creation of political system based on popular sovereignty and suffrage. -
The tennis court Oath
Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met. The Third Estate moved to an indoor tennis court where they pledged not to separate until they had given France a constitution. -
The taking over of the bastille
The Parisian crowd took over the Bastille, a symbol of royal tyranny. -
Abolition of feudalism
The Constituent Assembly abolished the entire feudal system. -
Declaration of rights of man and citizens
A charter of human liberties, containing the principles that inspired the French Revolution. -
Women’s march on Versailles
Mainly women marched from Paris to the Palace of Versailles.They stormed the palace, killing several guards . -
1791 constitution
Constitutional monarchy
Popular sovereignty
Separation of powers
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Royal flight to Varennes
The royal family decided to leave France and seek refuge in Austria. They fled the Tuileries Palace dressed as servants with their servants dressed as nobles. -
Invasion of Austria
France declared preventive war on Austria that invaded France in. -
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SOCIAL REPUBLIC
Radical bourgeoisie (supported by popular classes).
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French revolutionary wars
Revolutionary France was considered dangerous by the other European monarchies .Series of military conflicts. -
The attack of the Tuileries Palace
Known the events, the common people(sans-culottes) attacked the Tuileries Palace and took the royal familiy. The republic was declared. -
Louis XVI is acused of treason
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Louis XVI is guillotined
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The insurrection
A crowd of angry sans-culottes stormed the National Convention and forced it to vote for the arrest of its 29 Girondin deputies. -
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THE TERROR
Freedoms were suspended and those who protested or criticized the government were imprisioned or executed, appliying the Law of suspects. -
Louis XVI wife’s is guillotined
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CONSERVATIVE REPUBLIC
New moderate liberalism( moderate bourgeoisie) -
Execution of Robespierre
An end to the Reign of Terror -
Coup de Brumaire
Napoleon overtakes the French Directory. Through the support of the French people he creates the French Consulate.