french revolution

By anthony a

  • Louis xvl creates constitution

    Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution

  • Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting

    King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting because they were demanding more power in the government because they made up 97% of the population in France.

  • Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles

    his assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country. The opening of the Estates General

  • Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet.

    The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General

  • third estate takes tennis court oath

    the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace

  • storming the bastille

    the citizen stormed the bastille and took it over and tore it down brick by brick

  • the arrest of louis xvl

    The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris