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The Estates General was composed by the clergy , the nobility and comoners . They were summoned by Louis XVI as the economical situation in France wasn't good . The pourpose was to make a decision in how to put new taxes to solutionate the financial problems . But , instead the commoners formed the National Assembly because the clergy and nobility wanted to left the taxes in the hands of the comoners. And the commoners invited them to join the National Assembly following the wish of Louis XVI . -
This event is called like this as Louis XVI kick out the third estate from their place of meating , and instead they meet at an indoor tennis court at the Château of Versailles . There were deputies who din't wanted to be separated until France had a constitution , they ended up creating the National Assembly . This event is remarkable as it went against the monarchy in France , and it could be interpreted as a popular sovereignty .
Louis XVI told the other states to join the National Assembly . -
Louis wanted the nobility and clergy here to have an idea of control over them .
This period started when the National Assembly formed the National Constituent Assembly . They changed society and the political situation in France .
In this period they aproved the Declarations of the Rights of Man and of Citizen , they suppressed feudalism , they approved the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and they redacted the French Constitution .
They were sustituted by the Legislative Assembly . -
The Bastille was an old prison used since 1659 by Louis XVI .
It was attacked after parisians revolutionaries had the thought that Louis XVI was planning to arrest the National Assembly . This event is important because the prison could be considered as the representation of the absolutist monarchy of Louis XVI and the destruction of it mean that the power of a community could be higher than the one of a king .
The walls of the prison were destructed and even some rocks of it were sold . -
The storming of Bastille between other events , made people realise how bad a monarchy was , now they searched for a democracy . The August Decrees were 18 articles made by the National Constituent Assembly . These articles were like laws . These articles put an end to feudalism , putting an end to the french monarchy and starting the french republic . They also made the upper classes to pay taxes and remove some other privileges that they had , this meant that now everyone was equal to law . -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is a document that gave more rights to people in France , for example the freedom of speech , religious freedom , and equality towards the law . This document was inspired by some of the philosophers of the era like Montesquieu , Rousseau , and Voltaire , and also by the American Declaration of Independence signed in 1766 .
Although it provided individual rights to people , it also excluded some people like women , slaves , childs , and foreigners . -
This event occured betwee the 20 to the 22 of june , When King Louis XVI , and his wife , Marie Antoinette , and children , tried to escape from Paris to citadel of Montmédy . They tried to escape to extract more power an leave the population of Paris as they were angry for the financial struggles , Louis failed to collect taxes which gave conscience about the situation of France . But they were captured in Varannes and returned to Paris , then , they were both executed accused of treason . -
The Legislative Assembly was a creation of the National Constitutent assembly with a comitee of 745 members from the middle class of France , most of them were from the Jacobin Club . They could put taxes , start wars , sign treaties ... . Those people put some reforms to create an equal society , included new laws of divorce and inheritance for children . They closed because of the revolution in France which put an end to the monarchy . They couldn't support their role and ended up failing .
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This war started when some Austrian troops were near the french border , France told them to get out from there but they didn't listen so France kick them out , they believed that the Austrians wanted to stop the new government of France along with other European powers , they wanted to restore the monarchy leaded by Louis XVI due to the thought that the people of their countries would do te same to them ; also , France wanted to spread his revolutionary ideas through means of violence . -
The Tuileires Palace was the house of Louis XVI and of the Legislative Assembly . It was attacked by republicans and some parisians in search of the destruction of the monarchy and the people got an idea of what could happend to them as a republic was not common in that era , so they wanted to reduce completly the power of Louis XVI . This event is important as the results were the expected and the republic was proclaimed one month later , also because it gave power to the lower classes . -
The National Convention was made by the Montagnards , the Marsh and the Girondins . The Montagnards were a political group that thought of Paris as it if was the whole country , they tried to put some reforms which didn't work , and they ended up helping the poor . The Maris were the majority group there was , they had to approve the measures they did . And the Girondins were a political party that didn't look like it , people thought that they would have weakened the central government .
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Starting with the end of the monarchy , this period is remarkable due to the presence of the National Convention ; the Reign of Terror , a period of massacres and public executions because of the excitement caused by the french revolution , the religious changes , and because Robespierre was acting like a dictator in the CPS ; because of the Thermidorian Reaction , a parliamentary revolt ; and the founding of the Directory and of the Consulate .
It ended when Napoleon became a dictator . -
He was accused of treason , crimes against the state , and killed by guillotine , his wife was also executed nine months later .
In the Tuileries palace , the house of Louis they found proofs that he was against the revolution .
When he tried to flee to Varennes he was just returned to Paris without any consequences , but in August 13 1792 he was arrested and got send to The Temple , an ancient place used as a prison . The National Convention decided to execute him by the vote of the majority . -
Robespierre was also a revolutionary , but his methods to show it were really bad to the point of having executed more than 17,000 people , and people who were suspects , to don't spread opposite ideas to the revolution , others died in jail . He arrived to this extreme because he thought that the people wasn't strong enough to push the government to a democracy , he executed the ones who he thought that would never have it . The Thermidorian Reaction helped to stop him and the Reign of Terror . -
They were five guys who were supposed to make france a better place but failed as they couldn't repair the economy and they used violence and the army to protect France by ocuppying Piedmot , in Italy . They also wanted to stop the Jacobins , part of the Jacobin Club , a revolutionary political movement who wanted to end the absolutism that King Louis XVI wanted . They ended by the Coup of 18 Brumaire leaded by Napoleon Bonaparte that wanted to win power . It was replaced by The Consulate .
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The Consulate was the form of government in France after the Coup of 18 Brumaire done by Napoleon . There were three consuls . Napoleon was the first , and Sieyès and Ducos were the second and third consuls . They wanted to create a new constitution and they also protected the french interests abroad . They signed The Treaty of Lunéville , with Austria , because they losed in the Battle of Marengo , it stopped French Revolutionary wars .
It ended when Napoleon declared himself emperor in 1804 . -
This period was the fourth and last stage of the French Revolution . The first the National Assembly ; Legislative Assembly ; and the Directory .
It started when Napoleon destroyed the revolutionary government , it may seem as a bad thing , but , Napoleon was a good leader . He won and stopped wars by signing treaties , he won those battles because he was a good strategist , made reforms on the banking and educational system , centralized the government and improved the relations with the Pope . -
When Napoleon disolved the french republic an declared himself eperor because he wanted to have a higher status in monarchy and catholic circles , he made seven wars called Napoleonic Wars . At first , Napoleon wanted to show that France won power because of French Revolutionary Wars , but then he just wanted to show every power in Europe that he was more powefull than them , mostly to Britain . The Empire came to an end when Austrian , Prussian , Russian , and British armies occupied Paris .
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This battle was in the sea betwen Spainish and French navies against the British Royal Navy . It took place at the south of Spain at the Cape of Trafalgar near the Strait of Gibraltar , to it's west . The British attacked the Franco-Spanish navy as it could have been a threaten to Britain and it could have controlled the seas , but Britain won showing that Napoleon could never invade Britain and establishing British supremacy over the seas . This loose also delayed the plans to invade Britain . -
This battle was between France against Russia and Austria . Napoleon won even with a disadvantage in troops , he had less than Russia and Prussia . This war took place during the Third Coalition ; military alliances against France ; during the Third Coalition , Russia and Prussia between others formed an alliance to stop Napoleon from expanding his territories overseas . After his victory the Treaty of Pressburg was signed , Austria paid France to protect itself , France annexed territories . -
This war was from the 16th of October to the 19th , between France and it's allies against the coalition of Austria , Prussia , Russia and Sweden . France may have lost that battle because of the great number of soldiers his enemy had . Napoleon decided to attack Leipzig because he wanted to defeat his enemies one by one but instead it provoked a lot of deaths and hurts . This loose erased France from Germany . And the coalition invade France and sent Napoleon to an island called Elba . -
Napoleon expent 9 months in Elba , then he escaped to France .
In this battle Napoleon wanted Waterloo in his control because he didn't want the British army next to the Prussians . This battle was the last in the Napoleonic Wars this stooped Napoleon from his plans of conquering Europe . It marked the defeat of Napoleon because of the weather conditions and his soldiers state but Napoleon was willing to continue his plans except he got sent to St Helena when the British took over France .