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This assembly was summoned by Louis XVI as a complete reform of the tax system was needed because of France’s political and financial situation. It was composed of three estates: the clergy, nobility and commoners, who had the power to vote for new taxes and to make reforms in the country. This was one of the things that marked the start of the French Revolution. -
The third estate, who were the representatives of the French people, created the National Assembly for writing a new constitution and the first estate accepted to join it. -
This was a royal fortress and prison in Paris, attacked by a crowd of revolutionaries. This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution. -
Abolition of feudalism and the privileges of the nobility and the clergy by the National Assembly. -
This was declared by the National Assembly which proclaimed the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.
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A group of Persian women walked 20 km to Versailles and complained about the high price of bread and they even got the National Guard to join them. -
This took place in Paris by the people, that led to the fall of the French monarchy and the imprisonment of the royal family. -
France became a democratic republic.
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The Jacobins wanted to eliminate the Girondins and after the Death of Marat they were put on trial for treason. This started a period of extreme violence in which thousands of people were executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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After he was found guilty of treason, he was guillotined. -
He was the leader of the radical Jacobins. Many leaders of the revolution thought that he behaved like a tyrant, so he ended up arrested and guillotined ending the Reign of Terror.