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The representatives of the Third Estate met in pavilion in Versailles and proclaimed themselves the National Assembly.
They pledged to draft a costitution that reflected the will of the majority of the french people. -
It recognised the rights, individual freedoms and equality of all citizens in law and taxation. -
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The people of Paris supported the Assembly`s proposals and, on july 14, thy stormed the Bastille. -
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The royal family tried to escape from France, because they were in danger, to the Austrian Netherlands. As they neared the border, they were apprehended and returned to Paris under guard. Louis's attempted escape increased the influence of his radical enemies in the government and sealed his fate. -
This was driven by the moderate bourgeoisie, who aspired to abolish the Ancien Régime, elect a parliament by selective suffrage and establish a constitution (moderate liberalism)
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Women actively took part in the French Revolution, one of the most important was Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the Declaration of the Right of Woman and the Female Citizen.
It is modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. -
Most people involved in the governmental changes were memebers of a radical political organization, the Jacobin Club. -
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The betrayal by the king and the military invasion led to the revolt by the common people. They stormed Tuileries Palace and imprisoned the royal family. A republic was declared and the second phase of the Revolution began. -
The radical bourgeoisie, encouraged by the working classes, proclaimed the Republic and began a transformation into a democratic and equal society with universal male suffrage and social laws, -
Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were convicted of treason and executed. -
The Jacobins, the most radical sector of the bourgeoisie, endorsed the demands of the popular sectors and seized power. The Revolution had now entered its most extreme phase. A new constitution that recognise popular sovereignty and the right to social equality was enacted. -
Robespierre Assumes Control
One Jacobin leader, called Maximilien Robespierre, slowly gained power. He and his supporters set out to build a "republic virtue" by wiping out every trace of France's past. -
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Many people opposed the directional govenment, and a coup in July 1794 ended the Jacobin govenment.
Robespierre and other Jacobin leaders were executed by guillotine -
Any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government (1789-1794) -
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Despite the radicalisation of the French Revolution, the moderate bourgeoisie took power and implemented a new moderate liberalism -
In this context of crisis and war against the absolutism powers, general Napoleon Bonaparte organised a coup that ended the Directory. -
Napoleon was named consul, and the Consulate´s rule began.
This was a period of autocratic and authoritarian rule. -
Napoleon began his conquest of Europe and was crowned emperor by the pope in 1804. -
In his drive for a European Empire, Napoleon lost only the Battle of Trafalgar. This naval defeat was more important than all of his victories on land. The battle took place off the southwest coast of Spain. -
At this battle France win against Austria and Russia at Austerlitz, the French troops seemed unstoppable -
Napoleon made a second costly mistake. In an effort to get Portugal to accept the Continental System, he sent and invasion force through Spain, but the Spanish peope protested this action. In response Napoleon removed the Spanish king and put his own brother, Joseph, on the throne.
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The powers that defeated napoleon met at the congress of vienna.
The organiser, Ausrian Chancellor Matternich, wanted to stop the spread of liberal ideas and restore absolutism in Europe -
The failure of his invasion of Russia and the revolt in Spain against a foreign king marked the decline of the Napolonic Empire.
Later, the Imperial armies were finally defeated in waterloo by Great Britain and Prussia.
