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THE CONVENING OF THE ESTATES GENERAL
Louis XVI proposed to tax the nobility so he had to call the Estates General approve this new tax, it was the first meeting in 175 years. The Estates General met seperately and usually the third estate was out boted by the first two. -
The Tennis Court Oath
The third estate met at an indoor tennis court and pledged to not leave until a new constitution was written up. -
THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE
After the Tennis Court Oath rumors flew in Paris people were not sure of what to do so they tried to get weapons. The people were not sure of what to do so they tried to get weapons to defend themselves. The people stormed the Batille and killed some guards and paraded are the streets with their heads on pikes. -
The Great Fear
Rumors circulated through the countryside from town to town that the nobles were paying men to terrorize the peasants.
They broke into Nobles homes and destroyed legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues or even burned down the homes. -
The Decleration of the Right to Man
The National Assembly swept away feudal privileges of the first and second estate making all citizens equal.
They pass the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which said "men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”
Also it guaranteed freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion.
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The Womens march on Versailles
women had rioted over the price of bread and marched to Versailles and demanded that Louis and Marie return to Paris. Louis and Marie never again saw Versailles. -
Constitution of 1791
- King reluctantly approved a new Constitution where France’s government became a limited constitutional Monarchy, where King’s held very little power. It also created the Legislative Assembly which had the power to create laws.
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Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis and Marie tried to escape France in 1791, but were caught and turned over to the authorities -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. It was a measure intended to intimidate Paris, but rather helped further spur the increasingly radical French Revolution and finally led to the war between revolutionary France and counter-revolutionary monarchies. -
National Convention
The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy. The convention numbered 749 deputies, including businessmen, tradesmen, adn many professional men. -
The terror or reign of terror
A period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The guillotine took over. -
Directory
A body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate. They were very powerful and influential. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
Napoleon Bonaparte showed the full extent of his military genius. Paris was under attack from the royalists. The streets were filled with ten thousand or more. So, Napoleon positioned heavy artillery on the roofs of the buildings and fired grape shot into the crowd, killing one thousand four hundred royalists. -
Concordat of 1801
An agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status. -
Louisiana Purchase
The acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. They paid 15,000,000 dollars for the land. -
Napoleonic Code
After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the "Napoleonic Code." The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. -
Napoleon become emperor
In 1804, Napoleon tried to make himself emperor and a vote of the people showed they favored the idea.
He placed the crown on his own hand instead of letting the Pope crown him to prove that he was more powerful than the Pope. -
Battle of Trafalgar
A sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the ThirdThe battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Continental System
The foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade, -
Peninsular War
A war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. -
Invasion of Russia
A turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe. -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. He spent 111 days on the island. -
Battle of Waterloo
It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile. -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, although this claim has sparked significant debate, as some scholars have held that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning.
