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The French Revolution!

  • Rise of the Third Estate

    Rise of the Third Estate

    The meeting of May 5th, was mobilized to support equal representation for an abolishment through noble veto. The nobles within The Third Estate willingly gave up the privilages that they pleased so much under the traditional system that they followed.
  • The Bastille and The Great Fear

    The Bastille and The Great Fear

    The National Assembly continued meeting at Versailles while violence along with fear consumed the capital. Parisians panicked when rumors impending military coup began circulating.
  • Bastille Fortress Riot

    Bastille Fortress Riot

    When rioters stormed Bastille Fortress attempting to steal weapons, along with gunpowder, this started the actual French Revolution itself. Today, many look back on this event, and this event is commemerated as a national holiday in France.
  • The Death Certificate of the Old Order

    The Death Certificate of the Old Order

    Agrarian inssurections hastened exodus growings of nobles in the country. The National Constituent Assembly was inspired by this. They abolished feudalism signing (historian Georges Lefebvre later called it) The Death Certificate of the Old Order.
  • Drafting a Constitution

    Drafting a Constitution

    The Assembly adopted a Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen. This stated many democratic principles, this grounded in philosophical and political ideas because of enlightenment thinkers.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte's Rise

    Napoleon Bonaparte's Rise

    Royalists and Jacobins protested a new regime, but swiftly silenced the army. Led by a young, short, and successful general named Napoleon Bonaparte.