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Call of the Estates General
King Louis calls meeting of the Estates General, which is an assembly of representative from all three estates to approve the new tax in Versailles -
Call of the Estate General
King Louis the sixteenth calls a meeting called the Estate General, which is an assembly of representatives from all three estate who have come together to approve the new tax. -
Tennis Court Oath
After the third estate was removed from the Estate General's next assembly, because of their different ideas of government based on the Enlightment. The third estate decided to take matters into their own hands, so they broke into an indoor tennis court and voted for the government change from an absolute monarchy to a representative government. -
The Storming of the Basilica
Because of France’s government at that time a group of Parisians revolutionaries this was called “the mob” decides to really protest by gathering all the weapons and gunpowder they could find and storm into the Basilica which was a prison at that time, they kill the guards and generals and parade around the cities of Paris patriotically. -
Tennis Court Oath
After the third estate has been removed from the Estate General, because of their advanced thinking from the Enlightenment they don’t take no for an answer and decide to break into an empty indoor tennis court and vote for a representative government instead of a absolute monarchy.