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Estates General
On 1788 France tottered the verge bankruptcy. Riots were happeing/ LouisXVI finally had the Estates General come to the versailles the following year. In May 1789 the deadlocked the doors from the issue of voting. The 3 estates only had one vote each and first and second estate always beated the third estate. The following month France wanted them to be in the National Assembly. National Assembly got locked and guarded so they moved to a tennis court and it took the famous of Tennis Court Oath. -
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Estate Part 2
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Financial Troubles Part 2
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Fiancial Troubles
A rumor has spread that the factory owner was going to cut wages. Which the workers vandalized his home. Although, France and Europe still clung to an outdated social system that was in the Middle Ages.France was divided into three different classes. The first class was made up of clergy, second was made up of nobility, third comprised the majority of the population. The government taxes went to paying interest to this huge debt. The cost has gotten higher from the Seven years war and the Americ -
Parisians Storm the Bastille
Paris seized the National Assembly meeting in Versailles. Rumors went around and royal troops were occupying the capital. 800 parisians went outside to Bastille and the crowd demanded weapons and gunpowders which they did not have. Although since the 1800, the French have celebrated Batille as there National Independence Day/ -
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Radicals take over part 1
On August of 1791 the kings of Prussia and Emperor of Austria issued the Declaration of Pilnitz. On october 1791 the new legislative assembly took office. It survived for less than a year. All the prices raise rapidly. Which then the people were running out of food and things to survive. In paris the sans-culottes pushed the revolution into more radical action. The sans-culottes demanded a republic or governement ruled by elective represenatives instead of monarch. The war between French -
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Radicals take over part 2
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Monarchy Is Abolished part 1
A croed of Parisians stormed the royal palace of the Tuileries and killed the kings guard. The family fled the Legislative Assembly while escaping before the mob arrived. The next month the citizens attacked and killed the prisons. About 1,200 were killed. The envented "Suffrage" which gives them the right to vote. They voted to abolish Monarchy and make a republican. As the months went on the republic convention made Lois XVI on trial as a traitor to France. The king was convicted by one vote -
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Monarchy Abolished Part 2
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Revolution Enters The Third Stage
The constitution of 1795 set up a 5 man Directory and the two huse legislative elected by male citizens of property. The Directory held the power between 1795 to 1799. In the election in 1795 the monarchy won most of the seats in legislative. The politicians went to Napolean Bonaparte which is a popular military. They used him to help achieve there goals. Overall, Napolean became the ruler of France. -
Revolution Brings Back Change
In 1799, the 10 year old French Revolution has changed France. The new title 'citizen" was meant for many people of the social classes. The rest of the titles were eliminated. In 1793, France was the nation of army. Overall, the slavery was abolished.