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Estate General
The Estate General met at Versailles to speak about the inequalities people in France were facing but failed to do so. Thus beginning the French Revolution and trying to make equalities between the three estates. -
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French Revolution
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National Assembly
The third estate declared itself in the National Assembly, a couple of days later the 3rd estate moved to a tennis court and took the oath of the Tennis Court, which stated that they wouldn't disband until a constitution had been drafted. -
Storming of the Bastille
Occured in Paris, huge mobs invaded France's prison because France had unsucessfully cropped harvest 3-4 times in a row so it made it extremely hard for the 3rd estate to survive. Allowed France to see that if they don't change soon the people will become more outrage and more events like this will take place in the future. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The 3rd estate wanted a change because of the inequalities all throughout France having to do with money, power, and personal rights. Equality finally began coming into place and France began rebuilding their flaws. -
National Convention
An assembly that governed France from the date above till October 26th, 1795. The was a very key moment for them to come in and help run the government since France was beginning a revolution and had no real leader to shift it's ways and this helped a little. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
King Louis XVI was a bad leader and he was very shy which made him not a good king and made his country suffer from this as well. In August of 1792 Louis XVI was put on trial because of numerous crimes he was accused of doing and later in January of 1793 was named guilty and for this the french executed him using the guillotine. This event helped France finally see past their old and indecisive leader. -
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Reign of Terror
18500-40000 people were killed by the guillotine during this timespan due to numerous crimes, even leaders were killed during this timespan including King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Robespierre; this event finally ended after Robespierre was found guilty and killed by the guillotine. -
Coup d'Etat By Napoleon
Austria and Russia allied together with Britain; Napoleon returned to Paris while the government was in serious danger, they had the Coup d'Etat to begin their reconstruction (Napoleon was first consull) he later went on to be consul for life and even later on emperor of France. As a result of this event France got brighter days to come and a brighter future with Napoleon colming into power and leading his nation.
