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The Estates-General convened in an elaborate but temporary Salle des États set up in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château. Many in the Third Estate viewed the double representation as a revolution already peacefully accomplished.
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The body declared itself the National Assembly: an assembly not of the Estates but made up of "the People."
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The storming of the Bastille and the subsequent Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was the third event of this opening stage of the revolution. The first had been the revolt of the nobility, refusing to aid King Louis XVI through the payment of taxes. The second had been the formation of the National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath.
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First step of writing a constitution for France.
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Only king of France ever to be executed.
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Robespierre had not sought out the position. The Committee began to manage the country's internal police.
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Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution.
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After the French Revolutionary Wars ended the Napoleonic Wars began.
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The Battle of Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's reign.
