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King Dismisses Necker
-Result of financial crisis
-Chain of reaction that sparked violence because Necker was popular -
Third Estate Declares itself the NA
In response to disagreements about voting (by head or by order), the Third Estate decide to do away with the old structure, absolute royal sovereignty and create a new society of orders -
Tennis Court Oath
-Estates General-->National (Constituent) Assembly
-NA promises to remain united until a constitution is written (and in the meantime serve as the governing body-dual purposes)
-This is NOT the Estates doing away with privilege (that comes later)
-Around 500 people take the oath (only one didn't) -
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Popular Protest at Palace Vendôme
This was a protest at the king's Paris residence. Royal troops forced out. The Parisians amassed weapons (ie muskets) and also attacked customs ports around the city. -
Storming of Monastery of Saint-Lazare
Primarily stormed for grain and this lead to the creation of the National Guard (under Lafayette) -
Fall of the Bastille
-7,000 ransack of the Invalides (military hospital) first then turn towards Bastille
-Rumored that delegates of the NA were being held there (not true)
-Bastille was also a despotic symbol (no due process, seditious writers kept there, etc)
-Public imagination surrounded building/event
-Initially wanted just gunpowder but escalated. Governor of Bastille captured and beheaded
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Removal of (Feudal) Privilege
Nobility willingly give up some of their feudal privilege (specifically Feudal dues) as a sort of sacrifice to the Revolution. Escalates into the abolition of ALL privileges. Tithe also abolished -
Decrees of August 11
-Codifies the motions of August 4 (end of privilege and equal rights under the law)
-removal of personal servitude, feudal dues, hunting privilege, seignerial courts, tithes, venal officeholding (thus the parlements), and all fiscal exemptions
-Louis XVI was declared 'Restorer of French liberty" even though the basis for much of his power is gone
-Removed distinctions between the Estates (and therefore the Estates themselves are removed) -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The precursor to the Consitution of 1791 and outlined aims -
Women March on Versailles (October Days)
-Women (who want bread) riot and then marched to Versailles
-Anne-Josephe Méricourt was the ringleader
-NA opened their doors to them and King agreed to meet their demands
-Lafayette intervenes with National Guard to protect King
-Royal family then was escorted to Paris (oct 6) -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
-Recast the clergy as part of the administration. Would be paid by the state (no tithe)
-Clerical elections, suppression of the monastic order, episcopal absenteeism abolished
-secular administration choose members of clergy (cut out pope) -
La Fête de la Fédération
-Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille
-Held in Paris as a union of the French people-Single will
-Cost 30,000 livres, women representing the Constitution, and assembled warriors, altar. 400,000 in audience
-King is not the focal point, no hierarchy in seating. He becomes King of the French -
Flight to Varennes
Royal family and aides flee. Want to make it to the border with Austria (Leopold II-Holy Roman Emperor is Marie-Antoinette's brother). They are recognized and returned to Paris. Harsh reaction to the news because it undermines the Constitution (king is still the head of the government). Questions about how to proceed -
Slave Revolt in S-D Begins
Revolt begins. Set fire to fields. Early sucess in the revolt (but 184 plantations in revolt and by sep 20,000 slaves in uprising) -
Declaration of Pillnitz
European kings will intervene if Louis' life is in danger
Austrian posturing 1) return of German lands 2) restoration of Avignon -
Constitution of 1791
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Legislative Assembly Begins
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Declaration of War
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Brunswick Manifesto
Issued by Austria and Prussia that if Royal family were harmed that they would harm the French people. Intended to protect the Royal family but actually undermined them and confirmed the fears of the Revolutionary radicals -
Champs de Mars Massacre
Republican protest in Paris
-Political club agitate the king
-Massacre of protestors. National Guard fires on crowd -
Revolution of August 10, 1792
-Paris sections call for suspension of Consitution and end of monarchy
-Storming of the Tulleries Palace, overthrow of the monarchy -
Louis XVI removed
-Regime change, Legislative Assembly is dissolved and becomes the National Convention -
Victory at Valmy
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National Convention First Meeting
-meet @tulleries
-entirely new political body
-Remains until 1795 -
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Informal Declaration of Republic
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King's Trial
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King Convicted
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Louis XVI's Execution
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Expansion of the War
expanded to Britain, Dutch Republic, and Spain -
Levy of the 300,000
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Creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal
closely associated with the terror -
Decree of Summary Execution for Rebels
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Purge of Girodins
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Vote to expel Girodin
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Constitution of 1793
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Levee en Masse
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National Convention Begins
Replaces Legislative assembly and begins the Republic
