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Meeting the Estates General
Louis Waited until the last minute untill the country was almost bankrupt, he wanted to tax the nobility but when the second estate found out ,they made him call a meeting with the Estate General.(which is an assemble made up of the three Estate). -
National Assembly
Third Estate Delegates name themselves the National Assembly. Where they could pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people. -
tennis court oath
After the third estate delegates were locked out of their meeting room, the broke into an indoor tennis court. the third estate pledge to stay until they drew up new constitution. -
Storming the Bastille
In Paris rumors were spread rapidly. People proprosed that Louis was intent on using military force to dismiss the National Assembly. -
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen.
National Assembly took the ideals of the American Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. These rights included “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.” Also included citizens equal justice, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. -
A State Controlled Church
The assembly took over Church lands and declared that they were the countries. Catholic Church lost both its lands and its political independence.Church lands helped pay off France’s huge debt. -
Louis Tries to Escape
Louis XVI pondered his fate as a monarch.The royal family tried to escape from France to the Austrian Netherlands.were apprehended and returned to Paris under guard. -
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly is a body of power who create laws and to approve or discard the ideas of going to war. Even though the king still held executive power to enforce laws. -
The Jacobins Took Control
Most of the people involved in the governmental changes, were members of a government organization, called the Jacobin Club. One of the most prominent Jacobins club member was Jean-Paul Marat -
National Convention
National Convention governed France for 3 years, during most critical period of the French Revolution. It held executive power over France. -
Robespierre Assumes Control
Robespierre and his supporters set out to build a “republic of virtue” by getting rid of France's history. They changed the calendar, the renamed all the 12 months. This new calendar had no Sundays. They even closed all churches in Paris, all the cities and towns all over France soon did the same. -
Committee of Public Safety/Reign of Terror*
The committe if Public safety would try people for anything in the morning and send the accused to the guillotine in the afternoon. It is assumed that as many as 40,000 were killed. -
The Directory
A collective five people made up the directory. The Directory was the people in charge of France at this time. The Directory put Napoleon in charge of the army of France. -
Coup d’etat
The Directory was thrown over, Napoleon's friends suggested that he seize the political power.He had the support of the army, with this he took control over France. -
Napoleon Becomes Emperor
Napoleon was one of the greatest millitary. The pope met Napoleon with a glittering crown. He took the crown from the popes and placed it on his own head. This gesture showed that he had more power then the church. -
Invasion of Russia
Russia was retreated onto a large land area and burned Moscow so that napoleon would not have supplies and they lost all of their men between battle with Russia -
Napoleon defeated and exiled to Elba
Napoleon invaded russia but did not succeed because the russians kept retreating and they were weakening napoleon army, napoleon retreated from russia but was harassed by attacks and the harsh winter, and that's when he started to fall . -
Waterloo
Napoleon made his way to paris after escaping elba , people cheered him on and soldiers joined him, louis eventually fled his way across the border , but then was eventually defeated during the battle with the waterloo.
