French

The Phases of the French Revolution

  • National Assembly

    National Assembly
    3rd estate left 1st and 2nd to make new government.
  • Storming The Bastille

    Storming The Bastille
    The National Assembly people saw troops and thought the King was trying to break up the Assembly. So they raided the Bastille looking for guns to fight back.
  • The March Of Women

    The March Of Women
    The peasants were still upset. They got mad and threatened to destroy Versailles if the King did not return.
  • Legislative Assembly

    Legislative Assembly
    This is a government that was for all the people in the Common Wealth.
  • War With Austria

    War With Austria
    The French declared war with Austria to spread the idea of the Revolution to the people.
  • National Convention

    National Convention
    The radicals threw away the idea of a Monarchy and tried to start the idea of the Common Wealth.
  • Radicals Take Over

    Radicals Take Over
    The rads went and stormed the government and captured and then executed the King. They then made a new constitution. The rads still continued the Common Wealth.
  • The Committee of Public Safety

    The Committee of Public Safety
    This was made to stop the people form rebelling but it ended up being a very powerful dictatorship.
  • The Rain of Terror

    The Rain of Terror
    The Committee executed anyone who dared or is questioning the government with the guillotine.
  • The Directory

    The Directory
    After Robespierre died, the Committee of Public Safety was dismantled and they made a new constitution that promoted the needs of the middle class people.
  • The Council of Five Hundred

    The Council of Five Hundred
    This was made for the lower classes in the Legislative branch.
  • Napoleon Becomes Emperor

    Napoleon Becomes Emperor
    Napoleon makes himself King and takes control of the government, he achieved this by making himself in the war ranks