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the people were short on food and this made them angry because the king had all the food and never went hungry
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the french helping the americans in there revolt influenced the french to revolt
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They were immediately divided over a fundamental issue: should they vote by head, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third? On June 17 the bitter struggle over this legal issue finally drove the deputies of the Third Estate to declare themselves the National Assembly.
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the national assembly was the joint name for the two houses of parliament during the fourth replublic it was the new name of the lower house.
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The deputies of the third estate,commoners and lower clergy meet on an indoor tennis court known as the Jeu de Paume promise to meet everyday until the king agreed to there say.
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the great fear occured when the peasants were nearly panic-stricken.he gathering of troops around Paris scared the people and caused fear through the city.
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a group formed of crafstman and salesman decided to fight back and ran to the Invalides to steal some weapons.stole 28,000 rifles, but had no gun powder but they knew that the bastille had gunpowder so they decides to attack it.
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the D.R.M was Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789,basic rights of man and every person got these rights no more no less , is what they hoped for
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the new regime established civil equality among men ,and made more than half the adult male population eligible to vote
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thousands of woman marched 12 miles from paris to versailles, they were armed with weapons , they wanted king louis 16 to lower the cost of bread and sign the D.R.M, slaughterd the gaurds and put there heads on pikes. SOURCE: notes..
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fearing for the lives of himself and his family,King Louis 16th attempted to escape into Austria. Marie Antoinette’s brother was the emperor of Austria. They hoped that once in Austria they would be safe.however, when they were noticed along the road by a tollman who called for soldiers to have them arrested. Returned to Paris, the king and his family had no choice but to accept any demands put upon them by the people and to remain in their home as prisoners.
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The events in France gave new hope to the revolutionaries who had been defeated a few years before in the United Provinces,elgium, and Switzerland,all those who wanted changes in England, Ireland, the German states, the Austrian lands, or Italy looked upon the Revolution with sympathy.
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A number of French nobles, ecclesiastics, and some bourgeois abandoned the struggle in their own country and emigrated.many formed armed groups close to the northeastern frontier of France to help the rulers of Europe
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In August 1792, the royal couple was arrested by the sans-cullottes and imprisoned,The next January, king louis walked the guillotine and was executed.
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In the middle of a civil and foreign war the government decides to make "terror"and to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution
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The ending of the french revolution resulted in the government to change into a democracy . Food no longer scarce and places no longer at war with another .SOURCE:notes
