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The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the third Estate.
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King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd Estate. Had not met in 175 years.
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The third Estate wanted to change the voting process. They out voted the other estates and made themselves a legislature. The natural assembly had the right to make laws for france.
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The oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the third estate. The conference was held in a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court.
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The king ordered trrops to versaillesso the third estate thought they should arm themselves so they stormed the Bastille. The storming of the Bastille was a powerful symbol of the revolution.
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lead to the french monarchy crumbling. Removed dues and servics owed by peasants to land owners. Eliminated first estate legal privilages.
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Inspired by englih bill of rights, American Declaration of Independence and englightment philosophes. This made every man equal and gave men equal rights suchas freedom of speach and freedom of religion.
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It was caused by the king calling troops to versailles. This forced King louis to give in and make peace with the crowds by moving back to paris and living in the palace with his family.
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Start of the French revolution.In response to rumors,fearful peasants armed themselves in self-defense and attacked manor houses in some areas. Rumor was a forigien region was burning crops.
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The Flight to Varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution. Their destination was the fortress at Montmédy in northeastern France, a Royalist stronghold from which the king hoped to start a military campaign which would restore his rule.
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Created new legislative body and granted citizens with broad voting rights. It kept monarchy but restricted kings power. It also caused the king and quuen to try ro flee.
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It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.
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The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. It was a measure intended to intimidate Paris, but rather helped further spur the increasingly radical French Revolution and finally led to the war.
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The Tuileries Palace was attacked by militias that were supported by the National Guard. Louis XVI and the rest of the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly.
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Revolutionary gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first republic.Royal family imprisoned.
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France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against invaders.
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Louis XVI was arrested and tried for treason. His death marks the beginning of the Reign of Terror. Marie Antoinette was also executed the same year.
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A draft was created and all eligable men between 18-45 were set for mikitary service. This led to the creation of the revolutionary tribunal and changed society.
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The Law of Suspects marks an important weakening of individual freedoms in France. It led to nationwide revolutionary paranoia.
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The end of a period of violence that ocurred after the onset of the French Revolution.
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Napoleon was the first president of the french rebuplic.
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Napoleon established himself as the head of a more conservative,authoritarian and authocratic republician government in france while not declaring himeself head of state.
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The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de Paris, a way for Napoleon to make it clear that he was a son of the Revolution.
