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defict spending by the gov. and economic reform
louis XVI took the royal place. but being left in debt by his grandfather who left his father in debt and louis XVI father left hoim in even more debt then needed. so louis XVI hire jaquces necker a financial expert -
louis XVI calls the estate-general
king louis XVI summoned the estate-general looking to fix the problems of france -
parisians storm the bastille
parisians storm the bastille for the weapons and gun powder it holds after storming the the bastille they rip the building down by hand. -
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national assembly acts
france will recieve rights of man. so sense the womn didnt get anyrights they march from paris to versaille trying to get equal rights and even out the government. -
Threats from aboard
king of prussia and emperor of austria issued declaration of pilnitz. this threaten the people of france. they made this threat to protect the monarchy of france. -
monarchy is abolished
a crowd of parisians storm the royal palace in search of the king and queen slaughtering all gaurds in the palace during the search. -
civil war
fighting each other killing about/over 1,200 people they were called blood thirty mobs -
robespierre and the reign of terror
reign of terror lasted from september 1793 to july 1794. in this time frame 300,000 people were arrested and 17,000 of them were executed by the gillotine. ropbespierre was 1 of the architects of this execution weapon during the reign of terror. robespierre said "death to traitors"but on july 27th 1794 robespierre was arrested and next day was executed. -
Spread of nationlism
the revolutiona nd the war gave/let the people of france have a strong sense of national idea nationalism spreaded across france. they started having fesitivals and celabrating the revolution. by 1793 france was a nation in arms. -
third stage of the revolution
they started to move away fromt their conventions. so now they made the constitution of 1795. they set up a 5 man dicetory and 2 house legislature. the middle class and professional people of bourgeoisie were a domanit force at this stage in the revolution. they made peace with prussia and spain but still at war with great britian and austria.
