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The Estates General Meeting
The Estates General Meeting were the three classes of people that include, Clergy, Nobility, and everyone else. The clergy were the richest people also known as the first Estate , nobility are the second richest also known as the second Estate, and everyone else were the poor people also known as the third Estate. The third estate became the National Assembly because they were ignored when they tried to change the ways of taxation. -
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French Revolution
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Tennis Court Oath
The third Estate got tired of paying taxes when they were already poor and the king and queen were already living in luxury,(they were rich) when they tried to do something they were ignored so they agreed amongst themselves to an oath to never stop what they were doing until they created a constitution for France. They had to go there because they weren't allowed to go agaisnt the government and would have been stopped. -
Storming of Bastille
Bastille was a prison that held weapons, the third Estate ended up breaking into the prison and stealing the weapons to use and protect themselves from the troops. -
Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens
It's France's version of the Declaration of Independence, a state of things that need to be governed also known as the natural rights written by the commission that included Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just and Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles. -
Escape of the Royal Family
Louis and his wife tried to escape by dressing like servants and having their servant dress like them, the people fell for it and they got away. Later on they were recognized and brought back and put under house arrest in Paris. -
Champ De Mars
The Jacobins took signatures at this park saying that they didn't need a King, people started to gather around here and things got messy. Troops from the National Assembly were sent to calm down the people but it didn't work. The people started to throw rocks at the troops so they fired into the air, but the people didn't care which resulted the troops to fire inot the croud, making this turn into a massacre. -
Women's March on Versailles
Women were upset about the starvation that was going on then they heard rumors that the Queen had been hoarding grain, so the peasant women stormed to Versailles and broke in. -
Execution of Louis XVI
When he treied to escaped he got recognized and brought back, and it helped the charges of treason along with the accusation of the king of Prusia and Austria, which led to his death. He was killed by the Guilotiue, which was used to cut off his head. -
Reign of Terror
The Committee of Publc Safety started this terror. I t was the period of paranoia and excecution. If you were a suspect or suspicious you were executed. Maximilien was one of the 1.400 that died. -
End of Revolution and Rise of Napoleon
Maximiliein Robespiere was executed and then Napoleon Bonaparte came along, making a lot of sense to people. He over thrown the government and became emperor
