The French Revolution

By Adam964

  • The National Assenbly

    There are three estates the first is full of clergy, the second is nobility, and the third is the rest of society

  • Storming the bastille

    The national assembly was having a meeting and the king sent his soldiers to watch over the meeting but the estates thought they came to stop to meeting so they stormed the Bastille

  • Tennis court oath

    Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"

  • legaslative assembly

    Sans-culottes

  • Radicals Take Over

    Paris mob stormed Tuileries

  • War with Austria

    France
    declares war War of the
    First
    Coalition Levee en
    masse

  • The National Convention

    Monarchy abolished; France officially becomes a republic

  • The Guillotine

    Dr. Joseph Guillotin Intended as a more humane method of execution.

  • Execution of the King

    He went to the guillotine four days later on January 21, 1793

  • The Directory

    Promoted middle class interests

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Popularity rises after victories over the Austrians

  • Legacies of the French Revolution

    Power of nobles ended