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The mission of the National Constituent Assembly was to write a constitution to France.
The National Assembly faced several crisis, for example, the king to undermine the goverment, although he was suspeended and reinstated.
Also, the National Assemby wrote the Declarations of the Rights of Man and Ctizen and the Constitution of 1791.
The results of these things were quiet mixed.
The National Constituent Assembly was the first legislature in French history -
The official opening of the Estates General marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
The Estates General was the legislative body until the beginning of the French Revolution.
The king called a meeting of the Estates General (the clergy, nobility and commons) when he needed advice or help with a problem.
In the years leading to the French Revolution, the Estates General were needed to fix imbalances. -
The Tennis Court Oath was an important moment that set off the French Revolution.
This important event led to the creation of the French democratic-republic goverment.
In the Tennis Court Oath the representatives of the non nobles and clergy they would not disperse before an institution was established,
At the beginning, the oaths succedeed, but te Revolution was still a problem. -
The Storming of the Bastille happened because some of the French nobles wanted to get the 250 barrels due to the fear that the King Louis XVI arrest the National Assembly.
So this nobles, attacked Bastille, an old fortress that was used as a prision since 1969.
Besides, for the nobles, to do this was an example of monarchial cruelty. -
The August Decrees were a series of 19 articles made up by the National Constituion Assembly during the French Revolution.
This articles anulled the feudalism and the tax privileges for the upper class in France.
The main reason for making and singning these articles was so that the Estates General could desmotrate their devotion to the people.
As a consequence of this, the nobles who participed as deputies renounced their privileges and other even asked for a new judicial system. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was a series of 17 articles, which spoke of the natural and undeniable rights of the people (freedom, security, resistance to opression, ownership, the inviolability of a person, among others...). In addition, article 2 metions that all citizens are equal, befores the law has to intervene in any case.
And, for example, article 6 says that no citizen can be arrested without a judicial order. -
The flight to Varennes was a failed attempt by Louis XVI to escape with his family from Paris, due to the serious decline the royal family had suffered. The flight proved that Louis XVI no longer could be trusted, and the people's hatred to the monarchy drastically increased.
For the first time the topic of the republicanism began to be treated more freely . -
The Legislative Assembly took place after the National Constituent Assembly finished.
The Legislative Assembly consists in a house with its members elected by the process of voting.
In the Assembly the people can speak through their representatives.
One of the most important legacies of the assembly was its scheme for the local goverments on France. -
Austria and France were allies, but they had a complicated relationship during the second half of the 1700s, because they both want power over the European lands.
As a result of the fligh to Varennes, Leopoldo II and Frederick William II of Prussia join to sign the Declaration of Pillnitz, expressing concern about the developments in France. -
The Storming of the Tuileries Palace was an important moment to the French Revolution, in which the armed revolutionaries of Paris enter in the residence of King Louis XVI.
This led to the cancellation of the French Monarchy and to a new phase in the French Revolution.
Besides, this event gave more power to the working class revolutionaries (sans-culottes). -
The National Convention was the third revolutionary attempt at a national lesgislature.
Its duty was to establish a new constitution in the country of France.
In the years that the convention was established, there were many wars, civil wars and a continuous failure of politics. -
After the flight to Varennes, where he and his wife Maria Antonieta were returned to París, and the king was forced to accept the constitution of 1791
In August 1792, the royal marriage was stopped and in September the monarchy was abolished by the National Convention
Besides, in november, evidecnes of contra-revolutionary intrigues by Louis XVI were discovered, so he was condenned to be executed
On January,he was executed at the guillotine, and a few months later, his wife died in the same way -
The First French Republic was a series of parliamentary and republic regimes.
It oficially began on the day the deputies of the national Convention put and end to the French monarchy by comndening Louis XVI to execution for treason and found his guilty.
Finally, this period ends with the coronation Napoleon Bonaparte and the establishment of the first French empire. -
Maximilien Robespierre was a radical democrat and a Jacobin club member.
Robespierre decreed the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
This committee exercised dictatorial control over the French government and its population through violence and murdered approximately 17,000 people.
His political career began in 1789 when he became a member of the Third Estate of Artois in the Estates General.
He died on 28 July 1794 under the guillotine. -
The Directory was an executve comittee formed by five mans that governed France for four years and it was created by the Constitution of the Year III, which was adopted after the National Convention.
The Directory's duty was to put an end to the revolution by establishing a stable political system.
During the rule of this committee France returned to a more exclusionary and less democratic national government. -
Napoleon Bonaparte ruled in France for 15 years closing the French Revolution in 1799.
Napoleon wanted to create a solid dynasty in France and a huge French-dominated empire in Europe, thus proclaimed himself emperor, starting a new aristocracy.
During hid reign, France was constantly in wars, in fact, Gran Bretaña began to be its main rival.
France annexed territories of Netherlands and western Germany.
His reign ended with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. -
After the fall of the Directory, the Consulate positioned itself as the highest level of the goverment of France.
The consulate was made by three consuls, the first consul was Napoleon Bonaparte, who established himself as the boss of a more authoritarian republican government, but without declaring himself the sole ruler.
By the time this period was coming to an end, Napoleon had created a personal authoritarian government, which was considered a military dictatorship. -
The First French Empire was the first French government established by Napoleon Bonaparte after the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804.
The empire occupied most of Western and Central Europe, as well as possessing numerous colonial dominions and client states. The regime lasted from 18 May 1804 until 7 July 1815, the day King Louis XVIII's forces entered Paris. -
This battle lasted no more than six hours and its main source was British displeasure towards Napoleon, from which point hostilities returned to France, despite the fact that they had signed a peace.
France, knowing that Britain was its greatest enemy, decided to ally itself with Spain, offering it territories.
So, on 21 October, Franco-Spanish troops confronted Britain at Cape Trafalgar, and despite being outnumbered, Britain won. -
The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleon's greatest victories
This battle took place in Moravia, in the aftermath of the French entering Vienna and chasing allied Russian and Austrian troops into Moravia
They decided to fight against Napoleon, losing 15,000 men wounded and killed and 11,000 captured, while the French army lost only 9,000 men
The allied troops were dispersed and two days later, Francisco I of Austria arranged for Alejandro I to lead the troops back to Russia. -
In the early hours of 16 October, an Allied army made up of the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Prussia and other small German states launched a total of 330,000 troops against the Napoleonic troops stationed in Leipzig, while the latter had only 190,000.
Napoleon's army lost the battle and retreated on the evening of 19 October.
The aim of the battle was to wipe out Napoleon's French Empire, the result was a victory for the Allied forces. -
The Battle of Waterloo pitted the Napoleonic army against the Seventh Coalition south of Brussels
This Battle, was triggered by Napoleon's return after exile on the island of Elba, which began the period known as the Hundred Days
The Battle put an end to Bonaparte's hold on power and his dream of building a French Empire that would dominate the whole of Europe
It marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars and a period of relative peace in which international wars didn't occur again until 1853