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French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up
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King Louis XVI crowned
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pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution
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deal with France's financial crisis, but promptly fell to squabbling over its own structure
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medieval fortress and prison in Paris
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Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and fueled by the rumors of an aristocrat "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, peasant and town people mobilized in many regions
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The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments
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women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread
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first written constitution in France
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single chamber assembly in France from 21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795
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Louis XVI Executed
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Execution of Marie Antoinette
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National Convention and then restructured
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period of violence
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French coup of 1851, see The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
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ocialistic government that briefly ruled Paris
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general assembly representing the French estates of the realm
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formal act by which one nation goes to war against another
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national constitution of France
