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Change
A bad weather in the 1780s caused crop failure and hunger.
The price of bread doubled. -
Storming of the Bastille
A mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille, Paris prison.The mad attackers killed the commander and many guards. They paraded in celebration around the streets of Paris with dead men's heads on sticks.The fall of the Bastille became a great symbolic act of revolution for the French people. -
Declaration of the Rights of men and of the citizens
These right stated: men are born and remain free and equal in rights. These rights included: liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
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A Great Fear Sweeps France
Thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising price of bread. They took knives, axes and other weapons and marched into Versailles.First, they demanded the national assembly take action to provide bread.Then they turned their anger into the king and queen, they broke into the palace and ended up killing some of the guards.The women demanded that King Louis and Marie Antoinette return to Paris, and after some time, Louis agreed. A few hours later the king, his family and servants left. -
Royal family attends to flee
The royal family tried to escape France to the Austrian Netherlands. When they got to the border, they were caught and returned to Paris.This attempt to escape increased more enemies in the government, because of the showing his weak rule. -
France abolishes the monarchy
About 20,000 men and women invaded the Tuileries, the palace where the royal family was staying. The mob massacred the royal guards and imprisoned Louis XVI Marie Antoinette and their children. -
King Louis XVI is executed
King Louis XVI walked the steps to be beheaded by the guillotine -
Robespierre rules
Robespierre became leader of the Committee of Public Safety. For the next year, Robespierre governed France as a dictator and this period of his rule became known as the Reign of Terror. -
France is defeated
Great Britain, Holland and Spain joined Austria and Prussia against France.The French suffered a string of defeats. -
End of terror
Moderate leaders in the National Convention drafted a new plan for the government.It placed power firmly in the hands of upper and middle class and called for two house legislature and an executive body of 5 men, known as the Directory.These were five moderates, not revolutionary idealists. They also found a right general to command France’s armies – Napoleon Bonaparte.
