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Estates General Meeting
French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate). -
Tennis court Oath
As a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. -
Storming of the Bastille
The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy: its fall was the flash point of the French Revolution. -
The Great Fear
A period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate -
August Decrees
The French aristocrats surrendered their special privileges. -
Declaration of the Rights of a Man and a Citizen
Is one of the most important papers of the French Revolution. This paper explains a list ofrights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and separation of powers. -
Women's March on Versaille
These events ended the king's independence and signified the change of power and reforms about to overtake France. The march symbolized a new balance of power that displaced the ancient privileged orders of the French nobility and favored the nation's common people, collectively termed the Third Estate. -
Civil Constitution of Clergy
That subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government. -
September Massacres
The significance of the September massacres to the revolution was huge the was the people strolled around the street hacking up any prisoners they found and entering government prisons and kill every one showed how much the national convention was not in control the people could not be stopped by any one the military would not fire on them and the national guard were easily pushed aside. -
Execution of Louis 14th
The execution of Louis XVI was the ultimate repudiation of the old system of government. It was also the clearest act of defiance to the idea of "Divine Right of Kings" by which European monarchs had laid claim to their right to rule. By putting to death the head of state at the hands of commoners, the Revolutionary government declared the right of people to make decisions for themselves.
