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Jeu de Paume/ Tennis Court Oath
It was a commitment of union presented on June 20, 1789 between the 577 deputies of the third estate, facing pressure from the King Louis XVI. Their vow not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom was established. It became one of the most important events in the French Revolution. Source of information -
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National Assembly (1789-1791)
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The Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille was a decisive moment in the early months of the French Revolution (1789-1799). On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolizing the oppressiveness of France’s Ancien Régime was attacked by a crowd mainly consisting of sans-culottes, or lower classes. This event multiplied the number of lordly revolts. Source of information -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a text set by France's National Constituent Assembly on August 26th of the 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. It was inspired by Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution. Inside it, there were some laws which ended with the Ancien Regime.Original text in English -
Constitution 1791
The French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the French Revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty through the stablish of the separation of powers. Original text in Spanish -
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Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. Within it, there were formed the first political groups or parties. Like jacobines or girondines. -
War of the First Coalition
Legislative Assembly, France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792. Prussia, allied with Austria, in February, declared war on France in June 1792. In July 1792, an army under the Duke of Brunswick and composed mostly of Prussians joined the Austrian side and invaded France. Nevertheless, the revolution through the participation of the people persisted. Source of information -
Insurrection of 10 August 1792
On August 10th 1792 happened the insurrection which put an end to the monarchy of Louis XVI. The main event was the storming of the Tuileries Palace by members of the Paris sections and the Paris sans-culottes. The king sought the protection of the Legislative Assembly, which suspended from his constitutional duties and detained along with his family. Simultaneously, it was celebrated universal masculine elections to form a National Convention that would assume the powers of the State. -
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The Convention (1792-1795)
The Convention sat as a single-chamber assembly. The Convention came about when the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention to draw up a new constitution with no monarchy. The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that Convention should be elected by census suffrage. The National Convention was, therefore, the first French assembly elected by a suffrage without distinctions of class. -
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French First Republic
The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire on 18 May 1804 under Napoléon Bonaparte, although the form of the government changed several times.
This period was characterized by the fall of the monarchy, the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror, the Thermidorian Reaction and the founding of the Directory, and, finally, the creation of the Consulate and Napoleon's rise to power. -
Cult of the Supreme Being
It was a form of deism established in France by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution. It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic and a replacement for Roman Catholicism and its rival, the Cult of Reason. It went unsupported after the fall of Robespierre and was officially proscribed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. -
The Execution of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine took place at the
Revolution Square, formerly Place Louis XV, Paris. The National Convention convicted the king of high treason in a unanimous vote. Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority. The execution was performed four days later by Charles-Henri Sanson, High Executioner of the French First Republic. Louis XVI curiosities in Spanish -
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The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. Source of information -
Beginning of French Directory
It occurred what is known as thermidorian reaction. The moderate bourgeoisie, with the support of the army, put end to the experience of the igualitarian and Jacobin republic. Robespierre and his main supporters were arrested and ended up on the guillotine. During it, it was proclamed the Constitution of III Year. Constitution of III Year -
Execution of Robespierre
In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of internal enemies, conspirators, and calumniators, within the Convention and the governing Committees. He refused to name them, which alarmed the deputies who feared Robespierre was preparing another purge of the Convention. Due to this facts, he was arrested and executed. -
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French Directory
The French Directory was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799. Directoire is the name of the final four years of the French Revolution. Mainstream historiography also uses the term in reference to the period from the dissolution of the National Convention on 26 October 1795 to Napoleon's coup d’état. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat.
The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the short-lived French Republican calendar system. -
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French Consulate
During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul established himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler. Due to the long-lasting institutions established during these years, Robert B. Holtman has called the Consulate "one of the most important periods of all French history."Napoleon brought authoritarian personal rule which has been viewed as military dictatorship. -
Beginning of French Consulate
The Consulate was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history. -
Proclamation of the Constitution of the Year VIII
This constitution was proclamed by Napopelon Bonaparte during his consulate. Pdf of the constitution -
Autoproclamation of Emperor of French by Napoleon
To expand his power, Napoleon used these assassination plots to justify the creation of an imperial system based on the Roman model.He believed that a Bourbon restoration would be more difficult if his family's succession was entrenched in the constitution.Launching yet another referendum, he was elected as Emperor of the French by a tally exceeding 99%.As with the Life Consulate two years earlier, this referendum produced heavy participation, bringing out almost 3.6 million voters to the polls. -
End of the French Revolution
With the autoproclamation of Emeperor of France by Napoelon, it is considered that the French Revolution was finished.