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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. -
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The storming and fall of the Bastille for their attach -
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man. -
French Revolution
the flight to varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier -
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow -
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Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Overthrow of the monarchy. France is now a republic -
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine. -
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The Law of Suspects is passed, authorizing the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death. -
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Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son, the nominal King, would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad, a Revolutionary Tribunal indicted Marie Antoinette and her children for treason. Two attorneys were assigned to prepare her defense, and one describes the situation here. -
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Jacques René Hébert — main man of the sansculottes, leader of the Club of the Cordeliers, supporter of the Reign of Terror — and 17 revolutionaries who agreed with him, are guillotined -
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The National Convention arrests Robespierre -
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Royalists run riot in Paris and get crushed by republican troops, led by Bonaparte -
French Revolution
Last day of the National Convention. Tomorrow it will be replaced by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred), which in turn will elect the Directory