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A Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He attempted to divide the taille or poll tax more equally.
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Was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. He was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets. -
The last King of France before the fall of the monarchy. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet. Then four months after he was executed by guillotine.
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Last Queen of France. She was born in Austria and married to Louis XVI. She was guillotined for being guilty of crimes against the state.
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A French aristocrat and military officer. He hoped to suppress the radical democrats. Also, he served the Continental Army with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. -
He was a French military and political leader. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804. Was the first Emporer of France. -
A general assembly representing the French estates of the realm was summoned by Louis XVI. Was propose solutions to France's financial problems.
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It was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate. They represented at least 96% of the nation.
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A commitment to a national constitution and representative government. The vote was "not to separate and to reassemble.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. Held only seven prisoners
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Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles. Eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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They are the common people of the lower class. They had a poor quality of life. Also, later some became radical and militant partisans because of it.
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Louis was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310. He was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution.
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A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.
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The governing five-member committee in the French First Republic. It was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.