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this event happened where the king called every estate 1,2,3 to vote and every estate has one vote, the clergy (first state) has 1 vote, the nobles (second estate) has 1 vote, the peasant where 90% of the population has resided. The king thought this would solve problems like the taxation and the financial problems but the 1 and 2 estate would always team up on the third estate. The votes were always 2 to 1 so the peasants got mad and formed the national assembly.
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all the peasant gather to protest against the king were they demand that the king does something with the financial problems and the famine but the king just simply just locked them up in the building, but the peasants just escape went went to another building and formed the tennis court oath
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this event is where the peasants stormed in the prison to steal gunpowder and trying to free all the prison but there was only 7 prisoners there. they fought against the military and executed the governor and put his head on the pike.
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This even where the king try to escape to Austria to escape his people but the post master caught them and sent them back to France and the revolutionaries considered him as a traitor because he tried to leave his people to go to Austria so they strip his power to the point that he's just a figure head crating the constitutional monarch.
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The king was put on trial for treason and was found guilty and was executed on the guillotine. For Maria Antoinette was also beheaded for treason like her husband.
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Robespierre was in full control in France and created "terror is the order of the day" started the reign of terror because the public had to watch what they say or how they behave anything that resembles the old regime will get you publicly executed or the simplest things.
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Robespierre Had an god complex and drew the final straw in the national convention where he had a list threatening everybody in the national convection to be sent on the guillotine. That's when everybody in the national convection voted him to be executed on the guillotine. That's when the reign of terror ends.
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The duke of New Brunswick wrote a letter to France that if anything happens to the king they will burn France to the ground. This made the France (revolutionaries) mad storming in the kings palace and fighting the the guards and the republicans were gaining more power. Then the king was just a peasant and democracy and equality were introduced it was a massive change for France because the old regime was over.
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this even is when all the peasant swore the oath that they won't break and always resemble no matter what happens until the king listen to their demands and fix the problems like for more equality and economic reform.
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The legacy of the French Revolution is where the ideas of democracy was a better system than the old regime. This lead to other countries to do the same thing and have democratic system.
