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The cahiers de doléances were a lists of concerns or complains from commoners that where compiled by the Estates general.
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Louis XVI opened in versailles the Estates General composed by the nobility, clergy and the third state. Deputies arrived from all over France to assist this event and deliberate on matters of public interest. -
The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath and voted not to separate until the Constitution of the kingdom was approved. -
A state prison in Paris, the Bastille, was attacked by french revolutionaries. This became a symbol for everyone. It was one of the most important events in the Revolution that continued. -
This was when commoners had a general panic because there weren't enough grains and aristocrates fueled these rumors. So, commoners left their houses and some other armed themselves. It was a factor to the abolition of "seigneurs".
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the National Constituent Assembly abolished the privileges the nobility, and seigneurial rights. -
the French Assembly created this declaration which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the Revolution. -
A crowd of several thousand Parisians, mostly them strong women, marched on Versailles to pressure the government. -
Before the king and his family escaped Versailles a large crowd of women marched on the palace. The king and his family got scared so the Royal cortege left Versailles. Louis XVI thought he would return but this palace will never be again a residence for royalty. -
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and their family were arrested in Varennes. After they tried to escape from Paris. -
The Sans-Culottes took the Tuileries palace. This was. Avery violent revolution, and gave birth to a new republican regime. -
Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution -
This law, authorized the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason and punish them with death. -
When the Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor Robespierre was executed in the Place de la Revolution, where the King Louis XVI had been executed a year earlier. -
This coup d'état made by Napoleon Bonaparte replaced the Directory with the French Consulate. It was the end of French Revolution. -
This Concordat was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in Rome and Paris. -
Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon which follows the proclamation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France -
Napoleon met with his military commanders and they decided that he no longer had the support of the army. So the next day he abdicated. -
This represents the end of the First Empire and is also known as the return of the king, Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI, ascends the throne for a few months. -
the Prussians linked with Wellington's army in the final moments of Waterloo, so they crushed Napoleon's forces. -
The European powers didn't want Napoleon's return. So they exiled him to the island of St. Helena -
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This was a second French Revolution. it It took place because the king wanted to abolish the press right.
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In Europe. Excepting England and Russia, there were revolutions to express their desire to liberty in this year. Thus, this year is popularly known as the springtime of peoples. -
Napoleon III turned his presidency into an imperial title so he proclaimed himself Napoleon III emperor of the French -
The loss of Alsace-Lorraine was a significant cause of anti-German feeling in France in the period of WW1 -
Dreyfus was accused of selling military secrets to the German military . He was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. This seared the nation in two sides and famous writers like Zola wrote things about it. -
The Fashoda Incident was a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain and France. -
The French law was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on and established state secularism. -
Germany declares war to France because of the alliances that existed. -
A General commanded every taxi in Paris to the front.