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Estates General Meeting
It was a meeting called to solve the financial crises. It was held in the place of the Versailles. Also the Third Estates created the National Assembly. The meeting inclued: 300 clergy, 300 Nobility, and everyone else was the 600. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was held in the Tennis Court of Versailles due to the fact, the King had locked all the other rooms so everybody could come up with one conclusion/agreement. A pledge was made by the N.A. "To not stop until they make up a constitution for France". -
Storming of the Bastille
The Revolutionaries stromed the Bastille for weapons and for the release of seven prisoners. The real reason behind all of this is that, the King had the troops storm it so they could gather up weapons to protect his palice. That's what started the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The National Assembly came up with the Delcaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. It was a statement of a constitution like the Declaration of Independence. Which quoted; "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" also "Liberty, Property, Security, and resistance to oppression". -
Women's March on Versailles
Women of peasant heard rumors that Mary and the King was herding grain in their palace. The women marched to the palace, and stormed the building with weapons, and demanded to Queen and King to move to Paris. -
Escape of the Royal Family
Louis XVI and wife Marie Antinette dressed as servants and tried to escape, but was brought back to Paris by the Jacobins, and was put on house arrest. -
Champ de Mars
The National Assembly and Jacobins fought and 50 people were killed. The Jacobins were at the park protesting to get rid of the King, and that's how the National Assembly Troops got involved. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI was executed by the Guillotine because the verdict found he was guilty of high treason. -
Reign of Terror
It was a period of paranoia and massive execution that happened in France. The Committee of Public Safety got rid of people that wasn't rational or irrational enough and Robespierre lead it. -
End of Revolution and Rise of Napoleon
He was an artillry captain named Napoleon Bonaparte, who came to save the revolution because France was going under, after the Reign of Terror. 1795 ended the Revolution by a new constitution.
