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Tennis court Oath
A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had a new constitution. -
Storming the Bastille
Rumors about the king planning a military coup against the National Assembly. The people didn't like this so the marched to the Bastille prison for gun powdrer. Now it is France's independace Day -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. Claimed equal rights for men and access to public office based on talent, not status. -
Women's march on Versailles.
An angry mob of Parisian women stormed through Versailles demanding Louis XVI end the nationwide food shortage and that the royal family return to Paris with them. -
Constitution Accepted by King Louis
This made the government go from an absolute monachry into a constitutional monarchy. -
Flight to Varennes of the Royal Family
King Louis XVI, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution. -
French declare war against Austria
There was a war because they thought that a war would bring the county together and the wanted to spread the idea of revolution in Europe. -
Reign of Terror
During the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty". -
Festival of the Supreme Being
It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic and a replacement for Roman Catholicism. -
Constitution of 1795
Constitution that founded the Directory.