the french rev

The Estates-General was a gathering of the various estates in French society, including the nobility, peasants, and clergyd with their estate

. It was important because it established the rights and obligations of the individual who had been entruste

The tennis court oath was a dramatic act of defiance by the non-privileged classes of France during the 1789 French Revolution

. It occurred during a meeting of the Estates-General, which was a traditional assembly.

The Bastille was a fortress and a state prison built in the 14th century to defend Paris against the English. By the French Revolution, it had become a symbol of oppression and tyranny.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French Declaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyenthat inspired the French Revolution

,one of the basic charters of human liberties, containing the principles

Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804

The adverse environmental conditions, the weak state of his army, the incompetence of his officers, and the superior tactics of his enemies all forced Napoleon to wage war from a disadvantageous position and eventually led to his demise.

The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions

took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.