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Estates General Meeting
Meeting of the Estates-General, voting to be by Estate, not the head -
The Tennis Court Oath
Third Estateare locked out of meeting the Third Estate, and they think King Louis XVI locked them out, and decides upon a declarative vow, known as the The Tennis Court Oath, not to leave until the constitution has been established -
Storming of the Bastille
Revolutionary insurgents storm the prison called the Bastille and hope to free all the prisoners but find none and capture the Bastille -
September Massacres
Mobs kill half of Paris' population in the later summer of 1792 -
Reign of Terror
A period of violence that occurred after the French Revolution,and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll was in the tens of thousands, with 2,639 in Paris
