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March of Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles. On this day in 1789, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women, armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. -
Rise Of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution. After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war. -
Meeting of the Estates General
it was a key event in the French Revolution. It all started as a meeting of the "three estates" of French society to try and solve the issues happening in the nation. The government was in extreme debt due to their involvement in a number of wars and several years of crop failure. The peasant class known as the third estate, had been angered by the rise in prices of bread and other food, which exacerbated pre-existing tensions between the land-holding nobility to all. -
Tennis Court Oath
The deputies of the Third Estate, realizing that in any attempt at reform they would be outvoted by the two privileged orders, the clergy and the nobility, had formed, on June 17, a National Assembly. Then they found themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to stop, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court. -
Storming of the bastille
Parisian troops storm and ruined the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed. -
Regn of terror
The Reign of Terror, also known as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions. -
Declaration of Rights
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to make rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power.
