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Known as the Flight to Varennes, King Louis XVI and his wife tried to flee the country, but they were stopped at Varennes. They were then arrested. This event became a turning point that cause more French people to show hostility towards the French royalty.
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The preamble to this document, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man, was made two years before the constitution itself. After a lot of arguing and negotiating with King Louis XVI, the first constitution of France was ratified. https://web.archive.org/web/20111217062556/http://sourcebook.fsc.edu/history/constitutionof1791.html
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In October of 1791, the French Legislative Assembly replaced the National Constituent Assembly that was formed in 1789
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April of 1792, the newly created Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia.
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The king vetoes important decrees made by the Assembly. This was the people of France's last attempt to peacefully ask the King to step down.
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Tens of thousands of people storm the Tuileries palace with the intent to de-throne the king and make him the last monarch of France. The king and queen were imprisoned three days later.
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The monarchy is abolished and the Assembly becomes the National Convention. This is the establishment of the first republic in France.
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After executing King Louis XVI, other monarchs were outraged and the first war against the french republic broke out.
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The Committee of Public Safety added, leader from the radical-minded Jacobins, Maximilien Robespierre to strengthen their influence. Under his guidance, the committee peaked its power.
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The National Convention decrees levee en masse, obligating French men to take part in military works. http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1793levee.asp
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The rivalry between the Jacobins and Girondins comes to a head as the guillotine becomes a bloody symbol of the revolution.
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Robespierre and his comrades took their places above the rest of the convention, earning the name, 'the Mountain', and upsetting the Girondins.
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A coup d'état within the Committe of Public Safety, results in the Jacobins (Robespierre and his followers) being subjected to the guillotine.
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The fairly new Thermidorian Convention orders the closing of Jacobin clubs across Paris.
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The Directory, instituted by the new constitution, replaces the National Convention as the governing body of France.
