The french revolution
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- Summoning of the Estates General
- I have an proposal
- Tennis Court Oath
- We will take an oath..
- The Storming of the Bastille
- AHHHH!
- We won't back down!
- The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution.
- The National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 decrees or articles
- On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. In the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace. It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
- March on Versailles
- The Storming of the Bastille took place in Paris, France on July 14, 1789. This violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution. What was the Bastille? By the late 1700s, the Bastille was mostly used as a state prison by King Louis XVI.
- The royal Flight to Varennes
- The next significant event of the French Revolution occurred on August 4, 1789. On that day, the National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 decrees or articles. The August Decrees concerning the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility, and seigneurial rights.
- on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.March on Versailles Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the march
- in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution.
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