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The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates the clergy, nobility and commoners who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country. -
The Bastile was a fortress buitt in the late XIV to protect Paris during the Hudred Years War. By the late XVII, the Bastile was mostly used as a state prison the king Louis XVI. During the unrest of 1789 on July 14 a mob approached the Bastille to demand the arms and ammuntion stored there and, when the forces guarding the structure resisted, the attackers captured the prision and released the seven prisoners held there. -
King Louis XVI did not condone the formation or the actions of the National Assembly. He ordered the building where the National Assembly was meeting closed. The National Assembly was not stand still. They met in a local tennis court. On the tennis court, the king recognises them as the legitimate goverment. -
The National Constituent Assembly was the first revolution government of the French Revolution. Was created to deal with the looming econmic crisis in France. It is originally made up of mostly members of the third estate, many clergy and nobility representatives soon joined as anger for the monarchy of Louis XVI spread.
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The decrees of 4 August 1789, also known as the August Decrees, were a set of 19 articles passed by the national Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution witch abolished feudalism in France and ended the tax exemption privileges of the upper classe. Athough the passage of the decrees was a significant achievement of the Revolution. -
Once the need for a declaration of rights had been agreed, the deputies of the National Assembly were faced with the arduous task of composing one that coul be accepted by the majority. After several days of debate and voting, the deputies decided to suspend ther deliberations on the declaration, having agreed on seventy articles. In which the protection of natural rights replaced the kings will as the justification for authority. -
The fight to Varennes is the term used to describe the failed attempt by the royal famil to escape the French Revolution. Disiguised as a servant, king Louis XVI attempted to flee Paris. The failed escape attempt skarked calls for dethronement and the establishment of a republic, and led directly to the massacre on the massacre on the champ the Mars a month later. More, the kings rejection of the revolution contribute to the unworkability of the 1791 Constitution inspired of the monarchy. -
Beginning in 1789 the French Revolution saw the French people overthrow their absolute monarchy and establish a republic based on the principle of equality, liberty and fraternity. The Legistative Assembly was composed of 745 member,most of whom came from the middie class of French society. The assembly was divided between left-wing and right-wing members, but the Jacobin Club constituted a cosiderable part of the membership. The Asaresult, the Legislative Assembly was dissolved in 1792.
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The French Revolutionary War began when the French Legislative Assenbly declared War on Auatria. Thus began the War of the First Coalition the Kingdom of Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and Holand joined the coalition due to the execution of king Louis XVI. Thousands of volunteers came from the pronvinces to join the army. The saw against the kings and aristocracies of Erope. The revolutionary warrs brought losses and economic hardship to the people. -
The storming of the Tuileries Palace, also known as the insurrection of 10 August, was a turning point in the French Revolution (1789-1799) when armed revolutionaries in Paris invaded the residence of king Louis XVI of France and massacred his swiss Guards. This event marked the abolition of the French monarchy and the beginnig of a new phase of the Revolution. -
National Covention, French convention National Assembly that governed France, during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to providea new constitution for the monarchy. The convention numbered 749 deputies, including businessmen, tradesmen and many professional men. Among its early acts were the formal abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic.
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The French First Republic was formed on 22 september 1792, by the newly made National Convention. The Frist Republic lasted until the First French Empire in 1804 under Napaleon I. This time is characterized by the fall of the monarchy, the making of the National Convention and the infamous Reign of Terror, the founding of the Directory and finaly, the making of the Consulate and Napoleon rise to power.
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The trial and execution of king Louis XVI of France was one of the most impactful events of the French Revolution. In December 1792 the former king, now referred to as citizen Louis capet, was tried and found guilty of numerous crimes that amounted to high treason, and was he was sentenced to death by guillotine. -
Maximilen Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolutions Reign of Terro is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committe of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution mostly by gillotine of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. The day after his arrest , Robespierre and 21 of his followers wer guillotine before a cheering mob in the Place the la Revolution in Paris. -
The Directory was a fatal experiment in weak executive powers; it was created in reaction to the puritanical dictatorship that had existed under the Reign of Terror of (1793–1794), and it would end up yielding to the more disciplined dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The First French Empire, also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony. Although France had already established a colonial empire overseas since the early 17th century, the French state remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution.
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Napoleon ruled for 15 years, closing out the quarter-century so dominated by the French Revolution. His own ambitions were to establish a solid dynasty within France and to create a French-dominated empire in Europe. To this end he moved steadily to consolidate his personal power, proclaiming himself emperor and sketching a new aristocracy. He was almost constantly at war, with Britain his most dogged opponent but Prussia and Austria also joining successive coalitions.
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Consulate, French government established after the Coup of Brumaire, during the French Revolution. The Constitution of Year VIII created an executive consisting of three consuls, but the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, exercised all real power. The executive was given the power to draft new laws and the legislature became a mere rubber stamp. Elections became an elaborate farce and voters were stripped of their real power. Napoleon abolished the Consulate when he proclaimed himself emperor.
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The First French Empire was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. Although France had already established a colonial empire overseas since the early 17th century, the French state remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution.
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Battle of Trafalgar, a naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years; fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cadiz and the Strait of Gibraltar. A fleet of 33 ships under Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve faced a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson. At the end of September 1805, Villeneuve received orders to leave Cadiz and land troops in Naples to support the French campaign in southern Italy. -
Batalla de Austerlitz, también llamada Batalla de los Tres Emperadores, primer enfrentamiento de la Guerra de la Tercera Coalición y una de las mayores victorias de Napoleón. Sus 68.000 soldados derrotaron a casi 90.000 rusos y austriacos nominalmente al mando del general M.I. Kutuzov, obligando a Austria a firmar la paz con Francia (Tratado de Presburgo) y manteniendo a Prusia temporalmente fuera de la alianza antifrancesa. -
Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of Nations, Napoleon's decisive defeat that destroyed what remained of French power in Germany and Poland. The battle was fought at Leipzig between some 185,000 French and other troops under Napoleon's command and some 320,000 Allied troops, including Austrian, Prussian, Russian and Swedish forces, commanded respectively. -
Battle of Waterloo, also called La Belle Alliance, Napoleon's final defeat, which ended 23 years of recurrent warfare between France and the other powers of Europe. It was fought during the Hundred Days of Napoleon's restoration, 5 km south of the town of Waterloo, between Napoleon's 72,000 troops and the combined forces of the Duke of Wellington's 68,000-strong Allied army (including British, Dutch, Belgian and German units), the main force under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.