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The estates general
The meeting was summoned by King Louis XIV due to the fact that King Louis XIV tried to address financial debt by voting system. He wanted to make a decision about levying new taxes and he also attempted to reform the country. King Louis XIV tried to address financial debt by voting. Estates general was composed of three estates which were the clergy, nobility and commoners.
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The Tennis court oath
While the Third estate realized that they were locked out of their usual meeting hall. They thought that King Louis XVI was forcing Them to disband. They decided to gather nearby indoor tennis court. They took an oath which was never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France. King Louis appeared and instructed people to rejoin Estates but the leader of Third Estate refused the request. It showed that the unrest was growing against King Louis. -
The Great Fear
A period of chaos by commoners which swept through France. Those chaos were sparked by economic concerns, rural panic. The National Assembly appeased commoners and forestall further rural disorders, It rose the unrest among nobility. -
Dismissal of Jacques Necker
He was recalled in 1788 to address the bankrupt France, and he proposed financial and political reforms which contained limited constitutional monarchy. Opposition from the royal court led to Necker's dismissal. This event provoked the storming of Bastille. -
The storming of Bastille
In that period Third estates made demands of the king to stop abusing power. After that, they felt like the French government would form the army to assault commoners. They thought that Bastille had stores of gunpowder. A crowd of people and the army fought inside the courtyard . The government's army surrendered the fort and the revolutionaries took control. -
Ranks went up
Although Napoleon had fought against French military during the French Revolution. He was still promoted to the captain of French troops. The outcome of the ranking promotion is that he did not rejoin the regiment. He decided to return Corsica. -
Removal of Military
Due to the fact that Napoleon refused to take part in the war of Vendée. Hence, he got removed from the list of members within the French military. The French emperor persuaded young patriots to fight and die for himNapoleon thought that the fighting in the Vendée was so intractable. -
Successful invasion
After the royalist declaration of rebellion against the National Convention in Paris, Napoleon was summoned as command.
He went off to the French military and invaded Italy successfully. He won many battles. He was capable of taking over the states under the Papal control. He led the conquest of an independent city. -
The First Consul
Napoleon attended an event called coup of 18 Brumaire, he was part of a group. He eventually overthrew the French Directory He established himself as the head of a more liberal, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government. He became the consul because French people quickly forgot about his catastrophic Egyptian campaign. -
The Crowning of Napoleon
He crowned himself as en emperor. Napoleon established the legitimacy of his position and hereditary rule. Which means that he had the entire power of controlling France. He abolished the previous constitution and did alway with last vestiges of the revolution.