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Aristocratic Revolt
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne arranged an assembly of notables. They decided to tax the privilaged class, which the people did not like very much. -
Meeting in Versailles
in this meeting the people were divided over wether they should "vote by head, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third?"
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the great fear
The Great Fear was a panic and riots by peasents and rumors theat the king was going to over through The Third-Estate.when troops were gathered around paris, it started more riots adventuallly leading to the storming of bastille. -
The Beginning of the French Revolution
The beginning of the French Revolution started with the Storming of the Bastille by a parisian crowd. The building later became a prison. -
A New Monarchy
The National Assembly struggled with making a constitution, but on september 3rd the constitution was completed creating a constitutional monarchy. -
Counterrevolution
Throught the war, counterrevolutionaries protested the war by forming armed groups and tried getting help from foreign rulers. -
The New Regime
Some where in between 1791- 1792 "The National Constituent Assembly completed the abolition of feudalism, suppressed the old “orders,” established civil equality among men and made more than half the adult male population eligible to vote"
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The Beheading of King Louis XVI
After being conviceted of conspiriing with forein powers, King Louis XVI was exicuted by the guillotine. -
The End of the Revolution
At the end of the Revolution there was peace on europe which would not last long because of Napoleon. -
Napoleon Takes Office
Napoleon gained office by overthrowing the directory that replaced the king. Then, he was a given almost complete political and military power.
