-
Louis XVI was crowned king. He ruled from 1774 to 1791.
-
The Estates General was the first meeting since 1614. The first estate was the clergy, the second estate were the nobles, and the third estate were the commoners.
-
The French Assembly existed from June 13, 1789 from July 9, 1789. The third estate formed the National Assembly.
-
The Tennis Court Oath was held in an actual tennis curt. It was esigned by the members of the third estate. They were locked out of the meeting of the Estates General.
-
The storming of the Bastille was located in Paris, France. It represented royal authority. The Bastille was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy.
-
The Great Fear was a general panic. Peasants armed themselves in self defense.
-
A crowd of women set out for the palace. The news of their arrival finally got to the palace and the doors were locked. The crowd arrived thirty minutes after midnight.
-
The Legislative declared war on Austria on April 20, 1792. The Europeans Monarchs had their eyes on France. They were worried that the revolutionary fervor would spread to their countires.
-
The National Convention was an assembly in France. It succeeded the Legislative Assembly.
-
It was a major event of the French Revolution. Louis tried to flee but was found.He was arrested and turned in to prison along with the rest of his family.
-
It was a period of Violence that occured after the french Revolution. They were executed by the Guillotine. The Guillotine was the symbol of revolutionary cause.
-
It was a revolt of within the French Revolution. The National convention to execute Maximillien Robespierre triggered the reaction. It ended the radicial Phase of the French Revolution
-
The Directory was the government of France. Five directors exercised power. It operated the National Convention.
-
He was a French military leader. He was the Emoprer of the French. He dominatd Europeans affairs.
-
Known as the Ptriotic War. He attempted to defeat the Russian army. He hoped the battle would end the march into Russia.
-
He suffers the defeat from the Duke of Wellington.That brought an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.He rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army.
