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The Estates General was an assembly representing the french estates. This meeting was called by King Louis XVI, He called upon the three estates (First Estate: Clergy, Second Estate: Nobles, Third Estate: The Peasants) to help figure out a solution to France's financial issues.
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It was an assembly formed by members of the Third Estate of the Estate General, they named themselves The National Assembly because majority of the population was apart of the Third Estate
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King louis XVI had locked members of the National assembly in a tennis court room hoping that they would disband, instead they took an oat to never separate until a written constitution is made for france.
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Revolutionaries storm into a french prison called Bastille, they demand the soldiers for ammunition and weapons, and the soldiers refused but they took them anyway
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The National Assembly forced King Louis XVI to accept the French Constitution of 1791 which creates a Constitutional Monarchy
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the new national convention abolished the constitutional monarchy.
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The revolutionaries thought that if king louis is still alive there is a chance they can lose the freedom they just gained and that they will go back to a constitutional monarchy
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robespierre decided that whoever you think is against the revolution should get there head chopped off
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Robespierre reign was not good all the citizens were having enough of hs poor decisions so he was arrested and executed
