French Revolution

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  • Meeting of the Estates General

    Meeting of the Estates General
    The Estates General stemmed from a meeting that reunited an equal number of representatives, from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis. To debate some major problems, everyone met at the Palace of Versailles.
  • Voted to establish the National Assembly

    Voted to establish the National Assembly
    During the French Revlotution, The estates general had been called to try to solve the France's financial crisis, The members had been elected to represent the estates of the realm: the first estate was the clergy then the nobles wich is the second and last the third one represented all of the commoners and, in practice, represented the bourgeoisie.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    In the Bastille a prison in Paris, an aggressive group attacked the Bastille prison and tried to steal the dictatorship that they had. They had come to demand the huge ammunition stores that held within the prison walls. This marked symbolically the beginning of the French Revolution and each year they celebrate that day.
  • Feudalism is ended, divisions between Estates ended

    Feudalism is ended, divisions between Estates ended
    In this period of time when the feudalism stops working, in which republicans overthrew the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring.
  • Declaration of the Rights od Man and of the Citizens

    Declaration of the Rights od Man and of the Citizens
    It is a fundamental document that was aproved by the France's National Constituent Assembly, in the french revolution and the history of the human people and the rights that the civils have.
  • Bread Riots

    Bread Riots
    During the French revolution, there were many problems, one of the problems was that the bread riots were over bakery pricing of bread. the peasantry went in groups and damaged all the equipment and spoiling ingredients.
  • Assembly reforms France

    Assembly reforms France
    The summer of 1789 gave rise to an exciting proposal made by the Assembly to break the feudal system, took the feudal system also took the tithes payable to the Church,financial privileges, tax exemptions, the feudal system, seigniorial courts, venality, personal subjection to a lord and corporate and provincial privileges. These made that there was a society based on civil equality.The Assembly faced many difficult tasks in six main areas: taxation and finance, local government, the legal syste
  • Royal family attempts to flee

    Royal family attempts to flee
    The family tried to escape but it didn't work and they failed, however, a person saw them and they told the soldiers so that they arrested them. There is Paris, the family had to accept what the people demanded.
  • New constitution-limited monarchy- Legislative Assembly created

    New constitution-limited monarchy- Legislative Assembly created
    The legislative assembly complitly failed, It consisted of 745 members, few were nobles, very few were clergymen, and the great body came from the middle class. The new assembly had young members that had never been involved in the previous assembly and they didn't have any political experience.
  • Legislative Assembly declares war on Australia & Prussia

    Legislative Assembly declares war on Australia & Prussia
    There were many different ideas between the people in France, there were some people that wanted the war and there were others tht didn'd, reactionaries and the monarchy wanted war because they thought that the new government would be easily defeated by foreign powers. The battle of Valmy was one of the first Republic's first victories.
  • Abolished the monarchy

    Abolished the monarchy
    The French Revolution acomplished that the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. Louis asended to the French throne of France, finding with finantial problems, ecom¡nomic crisi, food shortages led to the outbreak of the French Revolution. King Louis and his queen finally they consider them guilty because they treason France by giving information to other countries, and they killed him and his wife in the guillotine.