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The dismissal of Jacques Necker as Finance Minister and rumors about military preparations provoke the armed uprising of the Parisians, who seize rifles and cannons and surround the Bastille prison, a symbol of despotism. Its governor, De Launay, opens fire on the attackers, causing a hundred deaths, but is forced to capitulate and is assassinated on the spot.
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After having constituted a National Assembly, and when the door of the room in which they will deliberate is closed by royal order, the representatives of the third state meet in the covered pediment that was used to play ball and solemnly swear not to separate until they are equipped France from a constitution.
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After on August 4, in a frenzied night session, the nobility and the clergy will compete to demand the abolition of their privileges, the National Assembly approves the Declaration, the first article of which establishes that “men are born and all live equal in rights ».
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Faced with the king's resistance to sanctioning the Bill of Rights, and mobilized by the high cost of living, the women of the Les Halles market lead a march on Versailles that led to the assault on the royal palace. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette agree to accompany the mob back to Paris to settle in the Tuileries.
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The text maintains the Monarchy and grants the right of veto to a king with limited powers. The Constituent Assembly is dissolved and, after a census-based election to which the outgoing deputies cannot appear, the Legislative Assembly meets on October 1.
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At the urging of Louis XVI, who secretly seeks the defeat of his armies, the Assembly declares war "on the King of Hungary and Bohemia," to give the impression that it is not doing so against the Austrian people. Only Robespierre and a minority of deputies from the left are opposed.
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At the behest of Louis XVI, who secretly seeks the defeat of his armies, the Convention forges an alliance between the Jacobin sector that feels threatened by Robespierre and the deputies of the Plain, usually mute. Robespierre's voice is silenced when he attempts to make a speech, and he and his top aides are arrested. After a failed attempt at resistance in the Town Hall 1794
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After a year in which the Thermidorians control the Convention, and four years of authoritarian rule through the Directory, the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire takes place, in which General Napoleon Bonaparte, recently returned from Egypt, takes power as first consul. France already has the dictator repeatedly sued by Marat.
