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Meeting of the Estates General
- The first time since 1614 that the Estates General has gathered
- Later on the first and second estates decided to meet seperately after realizing that the continuation of traditional voting (The king ordered them to meet seperately)
- The third estate wished for all representatives to meet as an entire assembly
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National Assembly
- On may 28th representatives of the Third Estate begin to meet on their own
- They soon become an independent body joined by some nobles and a majority of the clergy
- As of June 17 they are called the National Assembly
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Tennis Court Oath
- A pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members of the third estates
- "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established" is the oath that all those gathered on the tennis court in Versailles took
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Storming of the Bastille
- the crowd that tok on the Bastille first attacked the Invalides Fortress because it had 30,000 muskets inside it.
- After "storming" the Bastille the crowd discovered that it held very little weaponry and only had 7 prisoners.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
- The declaration "echoes the sentiments of Enlightenment philosphes"
- It gave both political and Social equality to all men
- It gave the right too: liberty, property, security and resistance to opposition
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March on Versaille/ Movement of the Royal Family to Paris
- Louis XVI and his family were forced to move out of Versailles by a group of 4,000 (mostly hungry women)
- They are forced to move into Tuileries in Paris under watch by the revolutionaries
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Attempted escape of the Royal Family
- The Royal family (the king, his wife and children) attempt to escape their confines in Paris
- They only made it as far as Varennes
- It was a turning point for the hostility towards the French Monarchy
- They were discovered 50km from their destination, the fortified royalist city of Montmedy
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Constitution of 1791
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War with Austria
- France declared war on Austria
- Joseph Rouget de Lisle sand the Marseillaise for the first time, which later became the national anthem
- People accuse the King of helping his brother-in-law, the King of Germany, to defeat the France
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September Massacre
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Execution of Louis XI
- The National Convention condemned him for death
- He met with Father Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont for confession before he departed for the "national razor"
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Committe for Public Safety
- France felt a new form of government was needed so they created the Committee for Public Safety to react quickly and take more extreme measures
- During 1793 Robespierre would join and dominate the government
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The Death of Marat
- He was one of the leaders of the Montagnards
- He was killed by Charlotte Corday after she gained entry to his rooms with a note promising details of counter-revolutionary action. She stabbed him in his bath.
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Reign of Terror
- Cause by the conflict between the Jacobins and Girondins
- Mass executions of "enemies of the revolution"
- 16,596 deaths by Guillotine
- some probable causes are: the public was frustrated that the social equality and anti-poverty measures promised were not happening,
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Festival of the Supreme Being
- Established by Maximilien Robespierre
- Festival was organized by the artist Jacques-Louis David
- Took place on a man-made mountain
- Robespierre used this day to present his new religion
- Napoleon Bonaparte banned this festival
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Death of Robespierre
- On July 27th his opponents took a stand against him and voted for his arrest
- He and his supporters were quickly free'd from jail so the opposition leaders rallied their forces and so Robespierre and his forces were captured that night and executed the next day
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Constitution of 1795
- National Constitution of France was allowed by the National Convention and remained around until the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799
- The Constitution of 1795 established a liberal republic based on the payment of taxes
