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He has a serious amount of debt that he inherited from previous rulers as well as his own. He borrowed a lot of money to help colonists in the American Revolution and now bankers refuse to lend him more money.
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They met at Versailles with the purpose of approving a new tax on the nobility.
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This proclaims the end of absolute monarchy and the beggining of representative democracy. This event leads to the Tennis Court Oath.
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An armed mob siezes control of the building killing about 100 people.
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Noblemen and memebers of the clergy join the National Assembly ending feudalism and the privileges of the First and Second Estates marking equality. The Old Regime is dead.
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The National Assembly adopts this declaration stating the rights of the citizens as it says clearly in the name.
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Thousands of armed Parisian women invade Versailles angry about the rising prices of bread. They kill some guards and demans throyal family to return to Paris.
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The royal family tries to escape from France into the Austrian Netherlands. When they near the border, they are arrested and return to Paris under guard.
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This constitution decalres a limited monarchy. It also created a Legislative Assembly which had the power to create laws and approve or reject declarations of war.
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The Legislative assembly decalres war on Austria and Prussia for urging the French to restore King Louis' position as an absolute monarch.
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King Louis XVI is arrested by the people.
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Citizens fearing that prisoners in Paris were going to break out and take control of the city, they raided prisons and killed over 1,000 prisoners. Many nobles and priests were also killed by the angry mobs.
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It put an end to the monarchy and officially decalred France a republic. Adult male citizens were given the right to vote.
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He is beheaded by a machine called the guillotine under the Jacobins sentenced him to death.
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The National Convention orders a draft of 300,000 French citizens both men and women from ages 18-40. Now the French army consists of more than 800,000 people.
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He becomes leader of the Committee of Public Safety. Its prime task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies.
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Members of the National Convention turn on Robespierre demanding his arrest and execution.
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Moderate leaders decide to put the power in the hands of the upper middle class and it has a two-house Legislature and an executive body of five men (Directory). They create order and find Napoleon Bonaparte to conduct France's army.
