french revolution

By nancymartinez0

  • general estate

    The first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.

  • Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen

    Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights

  • French Constitution of 1791

    The first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime

  • Flight to Varennes

    June 1791 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.

  • The Attack on the Tuileries

    one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution

  • The execution of Louis XVI

    It was a major event of the French Revolution. After events on the 10 August 1792, which saw the fall of the monarchy after the attack on the Tuileries by insurgents, Louis was arrested, interned in the Temple prison with his family, tried for high treason before the National Convention

  • Law of Suspects

    A decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety on 17 September 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. It marked a significant weakening of individual freedoms that led to "revolutionary paranoia" that swept the nation.

  • Marie Antoinette Be-Headed

    Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine.

  • George Washington - Proclamation of March 24, 1794

    He made a proclamation

  • Reign of Terror

    Was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution"

  • 13 Vendémiaire

    13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris

  • The National Convention

    single-chamber assembly in France from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 during the French Revolution