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After having been built in the National Assembly, and when the door of the room in which they will deliberate is closed by royal order, the representatives of the third estate meet in the covered pediment that was used to play ball and solemnly swear not to divide until they endowed France from a constitution. -
Adopted by the French Constituent Assembly from August 20 to 26, 1789, accepted by the Monarch of France on October 5, 1789. It is one of several of the primary documents of the French Revolution regarding the conceptualization of individual rights and those of the society, in addition to the universals. -
The French Constitution of 1791, the first drafted constitution in French history, was promulgated by the National Constituent Assembly on September 3, 1791 and accepted by Louis XVI. -
The uprising coordinated by the Parisian sections with the help of the federated from Marseilles led to the seizure of arms and heavy bloodshed at the Tuileries Palace. The Assembly provisionally suspends the king and calls a National Convention. Later Louis XVI was put on trial and sentenced to death. -
The September Massacres refer to the mass executions that took place from September 2 to 6, 1792. It is one of the darkest episodes of the French Revolution. These executions were not only carried out in Paris, they were also suffered in other cities in the country, such as Orleans, Meaux or Reims, although they were not in such high numbers as in Paris.
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The National Convention had sentenced the king to death on January 17 in a vote made out loud at the suggestion of Marat, and in which the death penalty was imposed by 387 votes to 334 votes for life imprisonment or exile. The execution took place on Monday, January 21, 1793 in the Plaza de la Revolución, it was one of the most important events of the French Revolution -
The execution of Marie Antoinette was one of the most important events of the French Revolution. His execution took place on October 16, 1793 in the Plaza de la Revolución, hours after his sentence was pronounced by the Revolutionary Court after 2 days of trial. -
The Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being was a set of religious civic festivals that were celebrated during the Terror, the phase of the French Revolution dominated by radical Jacobinism (years II and III of the First Republic, 1793-1794). -
El golpe de Estado del 9 de termidor ha sido un episodio de la Revolución francesa (27 de julio de 1794) que otorgó fin al Terror e instauró en su sitio la actitud termidoriana. -
On November 9, 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed First Consul of France after a coup. Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition did not stop and on December 2, 1804, in Notre Dame Cathedral, he was appointed Supreme Chief.
