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Louis XVI calls the Estates-General
France tottered on the verge of bankruptcy. Bread riots wer e spreading, and nobles fearful of taxes, were denouncing royal tyranny. A baffled Louis XVI finaly sunmoned the Estates General to meet at Versailles the following year. -
Diveded French Society/Financial Troubles
In France, everyone was divided into first estates (clergy) , second estates nobility and third estates rest of population. Louis XVI left France deeply indebt the heirs of Louis XVI failed to solve the economic crisis due to deficit spending. -
Spread of Nationalism
Moving away from the excesses of the convanvention moderates produced another constitution the third since 1789. The constitution of 1795 setup a five man directory and a two house legislative -
Parisians storm the Bastille
City of Paris seized the spotight from the national Assembly meeting in Versailles. More than 800 Parisains assembled outside Bastille. -
Revolt / National Assembly Acts (Right of Man, Women's March,Church,Constitution)
The national assembly voted to end their own privileges., The assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizen. Women had a march on versailles demande to see the king and the church is placed under State control. The constitution of 1971 Established a new government., -
Threats from abroad
The king of prussia and the emperor of Austria issued the Declaration of pilnitz. In this document, the two monorchs threat-ened to intervene to protect the the French monarchy. -
Civil war (Radicals Take Over)
The newly elected legislative Assembly took office. faced with crises at home and abroad, it survived for less than a year. Economic problems fed renewed turmoil. Assignats (as ig nats), the revolutionary currency, dropped in value, causing Prices to rise rapidly. uncertainly about prices led to hoading and caused additional food shortages. -
Monarchy is abolished
A crowd of parisians stormed the palace of tulariessand slaughtered the king's guards the royal family fled to the legislative Assembly escaping before mob arrived. -
Spread of Nationalism
Revolution and war gave the french people a strong sense of national identity by 1793. France was a nation in arms. From the port city of Marseilles (mahr say) troops marched to a rousing new song. -
Robespierre and the reign of terror
Robespierre " the incomptible" A shrewd lawyer and politician quickly rose to the leadership of the commitee of public safty. Robespierre was one of the chief architectc of the reign of terror which lasted from semptember 1793 to july 1794.
