french revolutionn

By Jairo David Acosta

  • Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution

    The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General.

  • Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet

    The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General

  • Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles

    This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.

  • Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting

    because they were demanding more power in the government because they made up 97% of the population in France.

  • Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

    The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king

  • The people of Paris storm the Bastille

    The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

  • The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris

    Later that year, ceding to popular pressure, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette left Versailles for Paris