French Revolution
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- May 5, 1789
- I am the people´s greatest friend
- June 20, 1789
- We hereby take this tennis court oath.
- July 14, 1789
- This isnt over!
- We´re going to attack
- The general took place in Versailles on May 5, 1789. King Louis XVI was confronted by commoners about the tax burden. The commoners were unsuccessful. This was the beginning of the french revolution. This event made the commoners very mad.
- August 26, 1789
- For the people!
- 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. Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall atVersailleson June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearbyindoor tennis court(salle du jeu de paume). There they took anoathnever to separate until a writtenconstitutionhad been established forFrance.
- October 5, 1789
- English newspaper called The World, a few days after the event took place.On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. This article reporting the events of 14 July was published in an
- June 20, 1791
- The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France. Inspired by the Enlightenment, the original version of the Declaration was discussed by the representatives on the basis of a 24 article draft proposed by the sixth bureau, led by Jérôme Champion de Cicé. The draft was later modified during the debates. A second and lengthier declaration, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 was later adopted
- French Constitution
- Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
- The king will hear us!
- After 14 July, some of the King’s entourage had urged him to flee so that he would not have to approve a new Constitution.His family urged the King to join them in Austria, where they could organize a military invasion that would put an end to the changes being wrought by the assembly and restore the old regime.
- We need to launch a counter attack!
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