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King Louis XVI summons the Estates-General for a meeting about what's going on in France King Louis was an absolute monarch.
So angered, he refused to acknowledge that the NAF were representatives, and he locked the door of the assembly and didn't let them inside. -
The Estates-General comes together to discuss the issues about what is going in France and how to change it. They had all convened for this meeting. -
The tennis court oath was formed during the convocation estates general because king Louis locked the NAF representative out of the banquet hall. Hence, the representatives moved to an indoor tennis court and made the tennis court oath "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established." -
The NAF stormed the Bastille and took it over the Bastille held the munitions cache. This armed the peasants and changed it from just an angry peasant mob into Revolutionaries. -
The NAF declared the rights of man and the citizen
These rights included:
Liberty
Property
Security
Resistance to oppression
Tipping point: high taxes + famine + high cost of food = anger, resentment, terrible hunger + resentment of the common person
Demands were made on King and Queen because there was no wheat to make bread...the King and Queen were never seen again. -
The NAF seized church lands and demanded that the church officials and priests had to be elected, not appointed. The catholic church lost its land and its political independence - this land and property was sold to raise money and to lower France’s tax problem. -
Pope Pius VI issued an encyclical condemning the Civil Constitution and threatening to suspend all clergy who took the oath. -
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers. -
The Jacobins were a radical political organization key to the changes in the government in France. Most of the people involved in the governmental changes in September 1792 were members of a radical political organization, the JacobinClub. -
The first time in France that someone used the guillotine to kill someone. Soon the guillotine would become the main form of public execution. It caused beheading by dropping a weighted blade on the neck and slicing it in half. -
King Louis XVI was executed, and the monarchy had fallen. The NAF successfully took over the monarchy and executed the king. -
In 1793 Maximilian Robespierre came into power. His goal was to destroy the old way of France and set up a republic of virtue. He wanted to change the calendar to lose all Sundays.
He also believed that religion was old-fashioned and dangerous, and churches close He became the leader of a community of public safety. In July of 1793, he governed France as a dictator. -
Marie Antoinette was executed, and the NAF was still in charge. They didn't let her see her children, so she died without saying goodbye to her kids. -
The government was trying to take back control of the monarchy, and the NAF captured Robespierre and sentenced Robespierre to death. He was executed by the guillotine.
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