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Estate General Meeting
Louis had to put off a deal after he had ran out of money. He impose teaxes on the nobility and so had been forced to call the Estate General meeting for the approval of the new tax. http://bastille-day.com/media/The-meeting-of-the-estates-general.png -
Act of Revolution
The third Estate voted to establish the National Assembly, which were proclaming the end of absolute monarchy and the begining of representative government. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pDQlrsHkDTA/UfJLeozJ-pI/AAAAAAABh5M/X3DJBaDq-io/s1600/111+Karl+Anton+Hickel,+William+Pitt+addressing+the+House+of+Commons,+1793.jpg -
Storming the Bastille
A mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille, which was a prison in Paris, and so the attackers hacked the prison and paraded around the streets with the dead men´s heads on pikes. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg -
Grand Speeches
Noblemen made grand speeches, declaring their love of liberty and equality, and suceed on motivating more the people by fear than by idealism, which made them joined other members of the National Assembly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Maccari-Cicero.jpg/500px-Maccari-Cicero.jpg -
Women´s March on Versailles
Thousands of Persian Women rioted over the rising price of bread. The women marched on Versailles carrying, knives, axes, and other dangerous weapons. http://libcom.org/files/images/history/5-et-6-octobre-1789.jpg -
Louis Attempt of Escaping
Louis XVI and his family wer in danger after Louis had pondered his fate as a monarch and the National Assembly restructed the realationship between chrch and state. So the royal family attempt to escape from France but somehow their plan fails and were upprehended and brought back. http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchimages/187.jpg -
The Guillotine
The former king walked with calm dignity up the steps of the scaffold to be beheaded by a machine called guillotine, after fiding him guilty, by a very close vote. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/unitarymoonbat/Enlightenment%20Justice/guillotine3.jpg -
French Army
The French army needed a reinforce and so Jacobin leaders took a extreme step by ordering in teh Convention a draft of 300,000 French citizens, ages 18-40. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/The_Anti-Slavery_Society_Convention,_1840_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg -
Reign of Terror
Robespierre became a leader of the Committee of Public Safety, and so he governed France virtually as a dictator and his rule became known as the "Reign of Terror." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Louis_Boilly_Robespierre.jpg -
Robespierre Execution
Members of the National Convention feared their own safety and turned on Robespierre. They all demanded his arrest and execution and so the, "Reign of Terror" had finally ended. http://whenintime.com/EventDetails.aspx?e=8e86be23-f834-47e6-86bf-87e5fbec8866&t=/tl/reyesjocel/French_Revolution_/
