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Necker is hired when Louis XIV needs additional assistance with the money issue in France -
Due to the government giving more freedom to the free market the cost of flour went up. -
First the first time in 150 years they call this meeting to address the problems in France with all the social classes, Sadly the 3rd estate gets locked out. -
A mob of angry women enters Versailles over the poor quality of food. They raid the palace stealing food and flour. Some people also went into the KIng and Queens chambers and cause a disturbance. -
After being shut out by the upper estates the third estate decided to form the National Assembly, an assembly for the people. -
A Paris mob storms the Bastille, a prison, for ammunition and hoped to free some prisoners. -
This document turned Frane from an Absolute monarchy to a Popular Sovereignty -
The journal talked about the control of the rich and its unfairness unfairness to the poor class -
This conflict caused a series of wars against France and other European nations. After the overthrow of King Louis XVI, Austria and Prussia had issued a call to European rulers to assist in the re-establishment of Louis as King of France, which led France to declare war on Austria. -
A key event of the French Revolution. Louis was convicted of high treason and other crimes, resulting in his execution. -
Prussia fought French revolutionary forces in Verdun with a successful victory gaining a clear path to Paris -
The mass killing of prisoners took place in Paris. The people believed that the political prisoners had plans to rise up in the prison to create a counterrevolutionary plot. Within these four days, the massacres spread to the other prisons of the city, and the civil authorities were powerless to stop them. About 1,200 prisoners were killed.
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Louis woke a five to prepare for his ride to the execution site. At eight o'clock a guard of 1,200 horsemen arrived to escort the former king on a two-hour carriage ride to his place of execution. -
France was beset by foreign and civil war. The new committee was to provide for the defense of the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the already existing bodies of executive government. -
While taking his medicinal bath for his skin condition Charlotte Corday stabs Marat. Corday will be executed a few days later. -
During Antoinette's trial, she was convicted of treason, sexual abuse, and incest with her own son. -
With the execution of Robespierre, this terror over France comes to an end
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Robespierre began to become corrupt with his new power. He and his allies were arrested in a hotel where they all committed suicide. Robespierre was left unconscious and was then sent to be properly executed. -
In the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon was part of a group that successfully overthrew the French Directory. The Directory was replaced, allowing Napoleon to become first consul, making him France's leading political figure.