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Meeting of the three french estates to come together to solve the country's economy's problems. Picture from:http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1730Isaac/IsaacSpyBook/E-Chapter03.htm
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The third estate was not aloud in the meeting with the other estates so they met at the palace's tennis court. When they met at the tennis court they made an oath that they would continue meeting until things changed.They called themselves the National Assembly.
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The peasants felt like the soldiers were closing in on them and that something bad was about to happen, so they went to the Bastille which was France's prison/weapon holding building to get weapons to arm themselves against the government.
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The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly was a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. Pictures From:http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights.html
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There was a rumor the Marie Antoinette was hoarding grain in the palace. The women of the third estate marched to the castle and stole the grain in order to feed their starving children.
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A crowd was gathering at Champ De Mars to sign a petition to get rid of the king. The crowd got so big that the National Guardfired to warning shots. The people started throwing stones and then the soldiers fired into the crowd.
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French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting.
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He was guillotined because he "abandoned the thrown" by trying to escape the country.
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The Committee of Public Safety was created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–94), a stage of the French Revolution.
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The Reign of terror ended with Robespierre's death by guilltine. The Reign of Terror was a violent time after the French Revolution.
