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The king calls this event to raise taxes. The clergy, nobles, and french people meet together for the first time in a very long time. -
The king locks the third estate out of the estates-general. The third estate goes to a tennis court and they form the "national assembly." -
Revolutionaries stormed the Bastille to send a message to the monarch. They also did it to get gunpowder and weapons. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is written which states that all men are equal under the law. This gave liberty, right to property, and resistance to oppression to men. Women are still secluded from this. -
Parisian Women spontaneously marched for bread. -
The king was thought to be surrounded by evil advisors at Versailles so he was forced to move to Paris and reside at the Tuileries Palace. -
Pope had no power of the French Clergy. Government paid the salaries of the French Clergy and maintained the churches. It transformed France's Catholic Church into a branch of the state. -
The Radical Phase begins in 1792. This time period had a lot of violence, death, and executions. Radical policies and laws were established during this time. -
The king is put on trial for treason and is found guilty. He is executed in front of crowds of french people. -
Maximilian Robespierre becomes the new leader of the revolution. He commands the Jacobins. Thousands of people are executed for not agreeing with the revolution.
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Marie Antoinette gets taken away after the King is executed. She is put on trial for treason and is convicted of incest. She gets executed by the guillotine. -
Robespierre put forth a political philosophy called The Republic of Virtue. It was created to get rid of the old France and everything associated with it. There was a new way of speaking and it introduced de-christianization to France. -
The leader of the Jacobins, Robespierre, is executed. The Jacobins power weakens after this. -
5 directors chosen among the legislative assembly acted as executive branch. They were chosen by electors. They were corrupt. There was a new constitution in 1795.
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