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WOmen demanded the right to be represented in the Estates-General and their right to vote. -
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They met in Versalles, and the Third Estate decided to leave the meeting because they wanted a vote per person no per state
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It recognised, individual, freedoms and equality
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The Austrian army invaded Paris an Louis XVII scape from Paris but he was catched. -
The first women's club was founded.
A law gave women the right to inherit.
The Constituion denied women the right to vote.
Olympe the Gouges writed the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen -
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The girondins were the more moderate bourgeoisie and they controlled the Republic -
A law authorished divorce and declared equal rights between spouses. -
The sans-culottes stormed the Tuileries Palace and impresioned the royal family -
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Louis XVI and his wife were convicted of treason and executed -
They were the most radical sector of the Bourgeoisie
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Women's clubs were banned, and, during the Reign of Terror, about 374 women were executed in Paris. -
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The moderates took back control of the Revolution -
Women were prohibited from attending political assemblies and from gathering in the street in numbers greater than five. -
Women in Paris, equipped with weapons and tools, marched to Versailles, where the royal family live, in an attempt to protest against the shortage of bread and claiming the king to sign the decree wich abolished manorialism. Their actions caused that the royal family moved to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. -
The end of the Directory was caused by a organised coup by Napoleon Bonaparte
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After Napoleon threw the Directory through a coup d'état, he was named Consul. -
This Constitution pf the new political system didn't include the separation of powers or a declaration of rights. Liberties were limited and censorship was imposed control public opinion. -
Napoleon proclaimed himself "Consul for life" -
Napoleon began his conquest of Europe in 1803. -
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In 1804, the Pope crowned Napoleon "Emperor of the French" -
France defeated Austria and Russia at the battle of Austerlitz. After, the French troops seemed to see unstoppable. -
In 1808, Napoleon invaded Spain and placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte as the new king of Spain. The Spanish War of Independence started. -
At 1811, the Napoleonic Empire had reached its zenith: it extended from Germany to Spain. France now controlled most of Europe. -
Napoleon sent an army of 500,000 men to Russia, and, in winter, less than 100,000 returned to France. This marked the decline of the Napoleonic Empire. -
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In 1815, the imperial armies were finally defeated in Waterloo by Great Britain and Russia. Napoleon abdicated after the defeat and was sent into exile on the islad on Saint Helena, where he died later. -
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Napoleon died in 1821 because of stomach's cancer.
