Everyone in France believed that taxing was unfair, excessive and inefficient
Estates general meeting/Tennis court
We shall stick together till a constitution is written
The French were starving to death in the streets. The middle class could barely get any food and peasants just starved to death. People would go as far as to killing others for any food. Main food supply was Bread.
Storming of the Bastille
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a famous Philosopher that made the Social Contract. This contract means that citizens will not break laws, or certain moral codes. In return if we follow the rules we'll be rewarded with security, survival, and education
Women's March to Versailles
This was on June 20, 1789. This is where the Third estate was locked out of a meeting and they though the king did it on purpose so they went to a Tennis court and made an oath to never separate until a written constitution had been established
This event happened on July 14, 1789. This was when the Parisian army went to the Bastille to get ammunition and arms.Most of these Parisians were people from the third estate. The Bastille held 30,000 pounds of gunpowder. To them they believed this was a symbol of being overpowered.
Parisians
French army
This event happened on October 5, 1789. This was when women were concerned over high price of bread. They believed that it shouldn't be continued so they marched over to the palace of Versailles
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