Bataille de fleurus 1794

French Revolution

  • Ancien Regime

    Ancien Regime

    The political and social system in France before the Revolution of 1789.
  • Meeting of the Estates General

    Meeting of the Estates General

    The Estates-General of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate).
  • National Assembly

    National Assembly

    During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General; thereafter (until replaced by the Legislative Assembly on September.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath

    the third estate formed a new constitution in a tennis court
  • Fall of Bastille

    Fall of Bastille

    the third estate stormed the bastille prison to get guns and gunpowder
  • Great Fear

    Great Fear

  • Start of Legislative Assembly

    Start of Legislative Assembly

  • Louis XIV's death

    Louis XIV's death

  • Reign of Terror

    Reign of Terror

  • Napoleon becomes leader or the French Army

    Napoleon becomes leader or the French Army