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Converting the Estates General
a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm -
Tennis court Oath
When Louis summoned the Estates-General to deal with the crises the country faced it didn't go how he hoped. The members of the Third Estate stood up to him. In response, he had them locked out of the assembly. So, instead the assembled in the tennis courts of Versailles. There they took an oath not to disband until a new constitution was introduced -
Storming of Bastille
the king was surrounding people with his troops so the people wanted to defend themselfs, so they stormed the bastille to get weapons -
Great Fear
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Great Fear
a period of panic and riot by peasants and others -
Declaration of the rights man
one of the basic charters of human liberties. The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” -
Womens march to Versailles
The market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles -
louis and marie try to escape France
where t king an queen of France try to leave, dressed up as pesents an acutally had peasents dressed as the king an queen. The king an queen got caught -
Constitution of 1791 is drafted
French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting -
National Convention
The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy