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Born
Born august 23rd 1754.Son of Marie-Josèphe of Saxon, and Louis -Ferdinand, the dauphin and dauphine of france.King louis VXl was born in the palace of versailles.Given the title Duc de Berry.he was a grandson to king XV. -
Marriage
the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.Married Marie Antoinette,age 14. -
KIng Louis 16 becoming king.
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The estates were the first estate,second estate, third estate too ,These were a important rule from the rfrench revolution war.In some states, the first estate were the Roman Catholic clergymen, the second estate was composed of the nobility, and the third estate was composed of the bourgeoisie and the peasants. Bourgeoisie, peasants and people with no estate from birth were separated in Sweden and Finland, as late as 1905. -
Tennis court oath
Oath taken by deputies of the Third Estate in the French Revolution. Believing that their newly formed National Assembly was to be not adamd, the deputies met at a nearby tennis court when they were locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles. They vowed never to separate until a written constitution was established for France. Their siceity forced Louis XVI to order the clergy and the nobility to join with the Third Estate in the National Assembly. -
Reign of terror
It refers to the short but bloody period in French history that began in 1793 and ended July 1794. During this time revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) led a tribunal that arrested, tried, and put to death more than 17,000 people-most of them by guillotine. In the reforms that followed the 1789 Oath of the Tennis Court and the capture of the Bastille, France was transformed into a constitutional state, and French subjects became French citizens. An elected legislature (the Co -
Declaration of right's of man
Its basic principle was that "all men are born free and equal in rights"specified as the rights of liberty, private property,the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression. It also established the principle of equality before the law and the freedoms of religion and speech. The Declaration represented a repudiation of the pre-Revolutionary monarchical regime. -
Bastille being attacked
Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789, by the Parisian revolutionaries.
Bastille Day became the French national holiday one year later, during the "Fete de la Federation". the french revolt against the monarchy.This revolt led to the french revolution.the events were , The Political Crisis,The Economic Crisis,The Estates General meeting,Storming of the Bastille,The French Revolution,The Reign of Terror -
extra fact
Death of Mirabeau. was a French revolutionary, as well as a writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and French politician at the same time. He was a popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on the model of Great Britain. He unsuccessfully conducted secret negotiations with the French monarchy in an effort to reconcile it with the Revolution. -
France war vs. austria/prussia
Unwilling to stay prisoner of its own people in Paris, Louis XVI tried to flee to his wife's native country, Austria. On June 21st, 1791 Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children dressed as bakers and hit the road. But the rumors of the King escape spread widely in the regions and the royal refugees were recognized and captured few miles from the German border, in Varennes. Thats what happened, the france and austira/prussia war -
Royal family trys to escape
Louis XVI's indecision on how to deal with revolutionary demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries in Paris on October 6, 1789 after Versailles had been attacked by an angry mob. Thenceforward the king seems to have become emotionally paralyzed, leaving most important decisions to the politically untrained queen. Prodded by the queen, Louis committed himself and his family to a disastrous attempt to escape from the c -
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Governing assembly 1792 – 1795 of the French Revolution. Comprising 749 deputies elected after the overthrow of the monarchy 1792, it sought to provide a new constitution for France. The struggle between the radical Montagnards and the moderate Girondins dominated the Convention until the Girondins were purged in 1793. The democratic constitution already approved by the Convention was not put into effect while the Montagnards controlled the assembly (1793 – 1794 r the Thermidorian Reaction -
Death of king louis xvi
King Louis died at the age 20. He was placed of his throne and had his head chopped off.Louis XVI was executed in front of the people of France who saluted his death as the beginning of a better era.People screamed for freedom as king louis the 16th was about to die.So thats what happened about his death. -
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(1793 – 96) Insurrections in the west of France during the French Revolution. In the religious and impoverished area known as the Vendée, discontent with the new government grew after it instituted strict controls over the Catholic church (1790). An uprising began in opposition to the conscription acts (1793) and spread throughout the region, where peasants were joined by royalists to form the Catholic and Royal Army. Led by the nobleman François Charette de La Contrie (1763 – 1796), the Vendéan -
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On October 5, 1793, a republican calendar devoid of all Catholic religious associations was adopted. It was used officially until January 1, 1806. The following chronology is based on the Gregorian calendar with occasional references to those republican calendar dates associated with certain famous events. -
Napoleon Bonaparte becoming the french leader
Napoleon is the most charismatic general in French history, famed for his military successes and at the same time for not quite conquering Europe. Starting as a second lieutenant in the French artillery, he rose quickly through the ranks until he staged a 1799 coup that made him First Consul of France. In 1804 he went further, proclaiming himself emperor. He led his armies to victory after victory, and by 1807 France ruled territory that stretched from Portugal to Italy and north to the rive
