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National Assembly
Third State Representatives of The Estates General met to discuss the French Revolution. It is important that the States met without the supervision of the king. Scared of their intentions, Louis XVI knocked the National Assembly and made it illegal, as a result, they were forced to meet in a Tennis Court. On June 20th 1789's Tennis Court Oath, these representatives of the non-priviled States wrote the 1st constitution of France, where Mirabeau, Robespierre, Lafayette and Sieyes participated. -
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The Constituent Assembly
The king agreed,and the Constituent Assembly was born.
The governor of the Bastille(prison),feared about some possibles attacks to Bastille.He send some reinforcements.In the 14 July,a group of people,began to appear around Bastille.They fight,and the seven prisoners were freed.
This revolts spread in other cities and countryside.People attack the homes of nobility.This was called the Grande Peur.
Then,the Constituent Assembly,abolished feudal privileges,tithes and established equality in taxes. -
Storming of the Bastille
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The Great Fear
It was a period of panic by peasants to end with the Third Estate. In that times, harvest were really poor, they had a lot of problems with storms, floods and snow. That's why peasants took collective action.
In towns, peasants fought agains their lords, destroying feudal documents. That's why the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudal privileges.
Often the bourgeoisie had as much to gain from the destruction of the feudal regime as did the peasantry.
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Elections for the new Legislative Assembly
After the constitution of 1791 had been adopted, there were elections for the new Legislative Assembly
Three political group emerged
The Girondins: represented the interest of the wealthy bourgeoisie
The Jacobins: represented the petit bourgeoisie
The Thermidorians: were not majority -
France declare war to Austria and Prussia
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Attack to the Tuileries Palace
In 1792 the people of Paris revolted and attacked the Tuileries Palace as a result Louis XVI was imprisioned so the monarchy desapear and became a republic -
National Convention
It was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the country of the monarchy. The first phase of the Convention was controlled by the Girodins who favoured bourgeois republic and Montagnards who favoured granting the poorer classes more political power.
The second phase was controlled by the Montagnards. Beacuse of the war and the Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety was set up. At June 24, 1793, the National Convention lost its legislative initiative. -
The Reign of Terror
In 1793, the Convention agreed to execute Louis XVI for treason and he was beheaded by the guillotine.
The Jacobins took control of the government and imposed a dictatorship known as the Terror. The Jacobins were led by Robespierre and supported by the sans-culottes. They executed those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution.
Roberspierre saw his popular support collapse; he was unable to kill his rivals faster than they could unite against him; finally Roberspierre died at the guillotine. -
The Directory
The Directory was a five-member committee which governed France, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and replaced by the French Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution. -
The Consulate
The French Consulate is the government of the French Republic that goes from the fall of the directory to the proclamation of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor on May 18,1804. This new government consisted of three chambers, the State Council, drafted the laws; the Court, discussed them; and the Legislative Assembly, voted them. Popular suffrage was maintained. The consuls held the executive power. Considerable political reforms were carried out as the Treaty of Lunéville or concorded of 1801.
