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On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever require, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution
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The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
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The great fear was a general panic that took place between 22 of July and 6 of August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution.[1] Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and, fuelled by rumors of an aristocrats' "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, both peasants and townspeople mobilized in many regions.
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Inspired by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of popular conceptions of individual liberty and democracy in Europe and worldwide.
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The law on the civil constitution of the clergy, voted on July 12, 1790 by the Constituent Assembly, was called to replace the Concordat of 1516. Its objective was to reorganize in depth the Church of France, transforming the Catholic parish priests into "public officials ecclesiastical »
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The flight to Varennes, or the failed escape of the royal family from Paris during the night of June 20-21, 1791, undermined the king's credibility as a constitutional monarch and ultimately led to the escalation of the crisis and the execution of Louis XVI. and Maria Antonieta.
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Created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting.
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Series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and spurious accusations of treason by Maximilien Robespierre
