The French Revolution

  • King Louis Birth

    King Louis Birth
    A small but healthy the baby was born at 6.24am in his parents apartment. The fashionable obstetrician Dr Jard had been found and a message sent to the baby grandpal. Authoritative a witness at a royal birth were essential to forestall cynical whisper. The new arrival was promptly baptised Louis auguste by the royal chaplain on gurad and the king came riding in hotfoot from Choisy.
  • Queen Marie Antoinette Birth

    Queen Marie Antoinette Birth
    Marie Antoinette was born in Austria on November 2, 1755. She was born on the same day as the famous earthquake of lisbon. Marie Antoinette was welcomed in France at first. Marie Antoinette formerly welcomed now was know fr her spending habits.
  • Napoleon Birth

    Napoleon Birth
    Napoleon was born in Corsica to parents of noble genoese ancestry and trained as an officer in mainland France. When he was born he was ut in a military school. He was a very good leader like his father in mom . He didnt really talk to other kids he liked too get his work done before anything else. He was a good leader
  • King Louis 16 getting married

    King Louis 16 getting married
    On April 19 1770 Marie Antoinette and Louis Auguste were married by proxy in the Augustine Church in Vienna. Marie Antoinette left for France two days later. She crossed the border into France on May 7, 1770. On May 16, 1770 their French wedding was held at Versailles in the Chapel Royal. After a dinner and the blessing of their bed by the archbishop of Reims, Marie Antoinette and Louis Auguste were escorted to their bedroom.
  • King Louis 16 becoming king

    King Louis 16 becoming king
    When king louis became king he had too choose its own way govern France. King Louis was well aware of Frances military inefficiency and economical turmoil. He decided to build a efficient capable of the rivalie with the english. King Louis sent his forces 2 america where the independent naval victory.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    The tennis court oath was a result of the growing discontent of the third estate in France in the face of King Louis 16th desire to hold onto the countrys history of absolute government. These reforms called for the meeting of all the Estates together and to hold a vote by head instead of by estate. This would have given the third estate at least nominally a stronger voice in the estates general. Refusing to be held down by their king any longer the deputies did not break up instead they move
  • National Assembly being Created

    National Assembly being Created
    June 20 1789 National Assembly members take tennis court oath, pledging to create new constitution. July 20 rural violence of Great Fear breaks out peasants lash out at feudal landlords for several weeks. July 14 mob of parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and confiscates weapons. August 4 August ecrees release peasants and farmers from feudal contracts. February 1790 Government confiscates church property .
  • The Bastille being Attacked

    The Bastille being Attacked
    The storming of the bastille occurred in paris on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in paris known as the bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained a couple inmates at the time of its storming its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. The second had been the formation of the national assembly and the tennis court oath.
  • Creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
    1. Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights social distinctions can be based only on public utility.
    2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
    3. The sources of al sovereignty resides esentially in the nation no body no individual can exercise authority that does not proceed from it in plain terms.
  • Bread March

    Bread March
    Thousand of women from Paris marched 12 miles from paris too the versaille palace. They carried broomstcks, pitchforks,swords. The women was angerie bout the shortage of bread. They broke down the gates killed the guards and captured king louis and arie The king and queen were forced too leave versailles.
  • Royal Family trying to Escape

    Royal Family trying to Escape
    Everybody loved the king at the start. As time went on he tryed too chagne aot of laws thst people did not like. So one day everybody started a riot in wanted to kill the king. One day they all charged in they wanted too kill him so him in his wife tryed too run away in escape. They got away theey where in a small ton for awhile then somebody reconized him as the king.
  • France going to war vs. Austria/Prussia

    France going to war vs. Austria/Prussia
    The politics of that period drove France towrads war with Austria and all its other allies. The king thought that the war was going to increase his popularity. he Austrian emperor Leopold the 2nd will wished that he could advoid war. Then France still declared war with Austria and then Prussia joined an the Austria side a few weeks later.
  • King Being Killed

    King Being Killed
    During the reign of king louis 16th and his wife marie antoinette revolutionary idea grew fast as the french did helped America fight their revolution that free them from a government that was not wanted. France went bank rupt and the people were starving and diein. Then they started seeing their monarchs the nobles and the aristocracy live in all wealth and became resentful.
  • Reign of Terror

    Reign of Terror
    The reign of terror did last from sept 1793 till 1794. The wole point of it was to purge France of enimes of the Rev and protect the country from foreign invaders. During this time peiod there was a shift in power within the committe from danton too robespierre. Danton had a strong physical presence and was a great speaker. he usally belived in the work of Rousseau who argued that the men are all born with a heart in should all be treated the same.
  • End of Revoultion

    End of Revoultion
    The military had taken a large role in the changes wrotrt by the french revolution before 1799 but never had a general used the army tochange. The oup of brumaire which took place in the later months of 1799. The consulate is taken to be the end because it was, technically a military coup rather than a movement pushed along. Ut was a very hppy day forever body.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte becoming the French Leader

    Napoleon Bonaparte becoming the French Leader
    Napoleon was a very strong and well nown man. When he was littler he went too militar schools. He was a very good leader in and kept to him self alot he didnt really talk or hang out with other kids. He was a very smart kid about miilitary though he raned u really fast. He was a good leader hen he got older.