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The Tennis Court Oath was an important revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation's people and not from the monarchy. It showed the growing unrest against Louis XVI and laid the foundation for later events, including the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the storming of the Bastille. We can see the changes that this act made to France even today. -
A Paris mob stormed the Bastille in the afternoon, in search of arms and ammunition that they believed was stored at the fortress. They also hoped to free prisoners at the Bastille, as it was traditionally a fortress in which political prisoners were held. The prison fortress was dismantled until almost nothing remained of it. The storming of the Bastille helped King Louis XVI get overthrown (along with tens of thousands of people). And the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, who were executed. -
It took place during the famous night session of the National Assembly. It says that, among the existing rights and dues, both feudal and censuel, all those originating in or representing real or personal serfdom shall be abolished without protection.The abolition of feudalism was crucial to the evolution of a modern, contractual notion of property and to the development of an unimpeded market in land.But it did not directly affect the ownership of land or the level of ordinary rents and leases. -
The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”, which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression. It effectively ended the ancien régime and ensured equality for the bourgeoisie. It also inspired the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide. -
Thousands of Parisians, many of them women, embarked on a 12-mile march to Versailles, the residence of the French king Louis XVI and the National Constituent Assembly. Driven to desperation by food shortages, they hoped the king would intervene – but some had more sinister ambitions. These events ended the king's independence and signified the change of power and reforms about to overtake France.