MWH French Revolution

  • Noble maan made grand speeches, declaring their love of freedom

  • National Assembly adopted a statemet of revolutionary ideas

    It was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen reflecting the Decloration of Independence
  • The royal family tried to escape

    They tried to go to Austrian Netherlans
  • The National Assembly completed the new constitution

  • The Legislative Assembly responded to Louis's absolutemonarchy by declaring war

  • 20,000 men and women invaded the Tuileries

  • The national Convention took office

  • members of a radical political organization were most people were involved in teh governmnetal change

  • Jacobins trial found him gulty so he went to the guillotine

  • GB,Holland, and Spain joined Prussia and Austria against France (early 1793)

  • Maximilien Robesppierre slowly gained power

  • Convention ordered a draft of 300,000 french citizens from 17-40

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

    Robespierre went to the guillotine
  • The army grew to 800,000 with women

  • Added a moderate leader