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The Creation of the National Assembly
The Third Estate was the ones who made the National Assembly. There was disagreement amongst the three estates over voting methods in the Estates General. The third estate wished to have a "vote by head" method, where the First Estate and Second Estate wanted "vote by bloc." Despite the statements of good faith to the king made by the National Assembly, King Louis XVI was outraged -
The Tennis Court Oath
The members of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. They were being to call themselves the National Assembly. The Tennis Court Oath stated, "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established." There was only person who did not join and that was Joseph Martin-Dauch from Castelnaudary. Who would only execute decisions made by the king. -
Storming of the Bastille
This happened on July 14, 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in central Paris. Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille. A decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people were executed. -
Feudalism Abolished
The panic of the Great Fear showed the peasants anger with the old, outmoded system of feudal obligations. Landed aristocracy in the National Assembly seized on the idea that the only way to stop the tide of violence. Then in the countryside was to renounce feudal privileges. The aristocracy stripped themselves of their feudal rights and privileges. -
The Declaration of the Right of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man echoed the sentiments of the Enlightenment philosophes the American Declaration of Independence. There were man rights that the men had politically and socially. It asserted the political and social equality of all men, the sovereignty of the people, and the natural right to liberty, property, security, and resistance to opposition. These are the right that the men had. -
Women March on Versailles
A group of women parents were demanding bread for their children. Even some of the men were helping the women. The King agreed agreed and promised to distribute all of the bread in Versailles to them. The arrival of the National Guard on the scene determined to take the King back to Paris complicated things for the King. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The nationalization of Church lands was the first step in state control of the Church. The National Assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy to bring the clergy under government control. Clergy would now be elected by all citizens. The clergy were required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. -
Flight to Varennes
The flight to Varennes was the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791. Appalled by the growing radicalism of the revolution, particularly its anti-clericalism.The flight to Varennes, though minor in itself, signed the death warrant for bourgeois dreams of a French constitutional monarchy. The king had made an attempt to flee. -
The Royal Family Flees
Unrest in Paris in the spring of 1791 convinced the queen, Marie Antoinette, that the family must flee. With the help of a loyal friend, Count Axel von Fersen, an escape was organized. When they reached Varennes, they were recognized and National Guardsmen escorted them back to Paris through jeering crowds.They where fleeing for their lives -
Attack on the Tuileries Palace
The king had been resident at the Tuileries since the people of Paris marched on Versailles. The dilapidated castle on the right bank of the Seine, not used as a regular royal residence since the days of Louis XIV. It was a humiliating step down from the grandeur of Versailles. It was still attended by nobles and foreign -
The September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris and other cities. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris. Also that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. There was a mass killing of prisoners. -
The Execution of King Louis XVI
Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. After six weeks of debate in the National Convention, with the Girondins wanting clemency for the king. But the Jacobins wanting him to be executed. The French government sent its former king to the guillotine. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal,an was brought among the guillotine. -
The Creation of the Committee of Public Safety
This was set up during one of the crises of the Revolution. When France was beset by foreign and civil war. The new committee was to provide for the defense of the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic. Also to oversee the already existing organs of executive government. -
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Jean Paul Marat was one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution. Jean Paul Marat founded the journal and its fiery criticism of those in power was a contributing factor to the bloody turn of the Revolution in 1792. Then when the king was arrested, Jean was elected ad the deputy of Pair. She was stabbed to death-in his bath by- Charlotte Corday. -
The Reign of Terror
With civil war spreading from the Vendée and hostile armies surrounding France on all sides. The Revolutionary government decided to make “Terror” the order of the day. There was wave of multiple executions that followed. In the provinces, representatives on mission and surveillance committees instituted local terrors. -
The Execution of Maximilian Robespierre
Robespierre became a prominent member of the Revolutionary body. He took a radical, democratic stance and was known as “the Incorruptible” for his dedication to civic morality. he encouraged the people to rise up in insurrection over military defeats and a food shortage. The uprising gave him an opportunity to finally purge the Girondins. -
Napoleon Gains Control
Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire. After the French invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon went among the throne two years later. Napoleon commanded a French army that defeated the larger armies of Austria in a series of battles in Italy. -
The Creation of the Directory
The Directory suffered from widespread of major corruption. Its policies aimed at protecting the positions of those who had supported the Revolution and preventing the return of the Bourbons. It made consolidated many of the achievements of the National Convention. Such as a creation of schooling systems.
