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The bankers didn't want to lend any more money to King Louis XVI.
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The King wanted to put the idea of tax. The second estate told him that he should call a meeing of the Estates-General, which were the representatives of all three estates.
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The National Assembly was established which was made up of third estate delagates that passed and reformed laws for French. This was the end of absolute monarchy and beginning of representative democracy.
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The third estate delegates were locked out of their meeting room so they broke into and indoor tennis court, pledging to stay until they had drawn a new constitution. This pledge was called the Tennis Court Oath.
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A huge mob searching for gunpowder and arms, stormed into Bastille, Paris prison.
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Noblemen made grand speeches, declaring their love for liberty and equality.
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Because of the Great Fear, that was when the peasants were terrified because they thought nobles were hiring outlaws to terrorize them, women marched into Versailles because they thought there was a raising price in bread. Also they demanded king and queen to return to Paris.
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The royal family tries to escape to the Austrian Netherlands but they were caught at the border and returned to Paris.
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The new constitution was made and was approve by King Louis XVI. Created limited constitutional monarchy and lowered kings power. The Legislative Assembly was created, they had the power to create laws and approve or reject of declerations of war. But then was seperated into other factions. Like the Emigres which were the nobles that wanted to undo the revolution. Also the San-cullotes, who were the workers and small shopkeepers that wanted the revolution to change more things.
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Austria and Prussia want French to restore the kings position to an absolute monarch. Legislative Assembly responds by declaring war.
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Parisian men and women invaded the Tulieries where the royal family was staying. They massacred guards and imprisoned, Louis XVI, Maria Antoiniette and their children.
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Most of the people who were involved in the governmental changes in September 1792, were members of a radical political organization, the Jacobin Club. They wanted to kill anybody supporting the king.
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King Louis was walking the steps to be beheaded by a machine called the guillotine, which was a machine that was easy to kill in a fast way.
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The Convention ordered a draft, of 300,000 French citizens from ages 18 to 40.
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Robespierre became leader of Comittee of Public Safety. He gained power and governed France as a dictator. This rule was known as the 'Reign of Terror'
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National Convention turned on Robespierre. He was sent to the guillotine.
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Moderate leaders in National Convention drafted a new plan for the government. They also found a right general to command France's armies, Napoleon Bonaparte.
