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The Start Of The French Rev / Age Of Enlightment
King Louis and the nobles had been spending too much money on parties, also they have been losing a lot of wars in that period of time, which in return made people who pays the taxes (peasants) unhappy because they were still starving and had barely any food; also philosophers of France had been rethinking about if France is actually a good kingdom to live in. -
King Louis was named the king of France
His grandpa which was the former king died from smallpox and he was named the king of France -
Tax the poor
the king had added a ridiculous amount of tax in order to fix France's broken economy, but the king and the nobles continued to party and spend money as if nothing had happened. Also, the tax rules are very inconsistent across the whole nation -
Harsh summers and winters
A series of harsh summers and winters destroyed all of the peasants' crops, which drove up the price of all foods and became the last straw for riot -
Estates General
An estates general was summoned by the king which was a meeting between the three estates, but the first estate and the second estate would always outvote the third estate, which at the time, was 98% of the French population, that's why the people were not satisfied by the judgement made on the Estates General -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate people were rather not pleased with the outcome of the estates general, that why they decided the form their own 'government', form their own laws, and take over the government. Hence the birth of the "national assembly". They choose to meet in a tennis court because all the other buildings are locked by the order of the king out of fear of losing his power -
Storming of the Bastille
The people surrounded the Bastille, a prison in France, in order to get gunpowder for their weapons. Killing the prison warden on the way. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
A legal document called the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed which ensures equal rights among all people. -
The march to the kings palace
the french people marched to Versailles to bring the king back to Paris -
The invention of the guillotine was invented
the guillotine which was a new way of execution was invented, Freemason Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was the inventor, and it was meant to be a more humane way of execution. It was last used in 1977. -
The king and queen tried to flee the country
The king and queen tried to flee to Austria since the queen was Austrian. They were captured at Varennes by the postmaster at the border. This event made the people's trust for the king worse -
King has been dethrown
The king's power was taken away and it is now a government-ruled country, the king is now just an ordinary citizen and would spend the rest of his life in prison -
Louis XVI executed
king Louis was executed on the guillotine -
Marie Antoinette executed
old queen executed