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the Estates General were opened
The Estates General stemmed from a meeting that reunited an equal number of representatives from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis. -
The Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. it only had seven people in it but its still considered a symbol of abuse to the monarchy -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. they basically made the human rights for the men Thomas Jefferson was part of it aswell -
Flight to Varennes
was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France and his family mmediate 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. -
King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution
The king finally accepts the constitution and it is very goood because now everyone has a constitution. The first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
10 august (french Revolution)
one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution that day was the fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune -
execution of king louis XVI
King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. after the fall of the monarchy thats when they arrested the king and then later they proceded to killing him -
Law of Suspects
It marked a significant weakening of individual freedoms that led to "revolutionary paranoia" that swept the nation. anyone at all was deemed suspicious "who, by their conduct or their relationships, either by their words or writings, have been partisans of tyranny or federalism and enemies of freedom. -
The Queen’s Defense
the Convention turned to the rest of the royal family. Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son, the nominal King, would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad, a Revolutionary Tribunal indicted Marie Antoinette and her children for treason. -
Kościuszko Uprising
The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Commonwealth of Poland and the Prussian partition in 1794. -
Thermidorian Reaction
when Robespierre and other radical revolutionaries came under concerted attack in the National Convention. Thermidorian Reaction also refers to the remaining period until the National Convention -
13 Vendémiaire
the 13 vendemiarie is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. The battle was largely responsible for the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career. -
until this day
until October 26, 1795, during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy
