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The National Assembly
The National Assembly was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; They gathered in a nearby tennis court to take the Tennis Court Oath after the King prohibited them to be part of the Estates General. It was here that the third estate established the National Assembly, the new revolutionary government, and swore to not separate until France had a constitution. -
Storming of the bastille
the people of Paris attacked the fortress of the Bastille and occupied it. The Bastille was the symbol of despotism. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The declaration of the rights of man and citizen consists of 17 articles. They refer mainly to the fact that all men are equal; that sovereignty resides in the nation; that natural rights, such as freedom, equality, property, security and resistance to oppression, should not be violated, nor should freedom of thought and belief be violated. -
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
the property of the Church passed into the hands of the State and the appointment of the authorities would be made in the future by the election of the people. -
The constitution was promulgated
of monarchical tendency that sanctioned the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen, as well as the existence of three powers: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. -
Escape from the King
Louis XVI tried to flee abroad but was discovered in Varennes and then arrested and imprisoned in the Tuileries. -
Legislative Assembly
was the governing body of France between October 1791 and September 1792. -
The Convention
It was the most radical phase of the revolution. -
Atack on the Tuileries Palace
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Execution of Louis XVI.
He was beheaded by guillotine. -
The jacobins
The Jacobins took control of the government and imposed a dictatorship known as THE TERROR. -
Robespierre
The jacobins were led by Robespierre and supported by the sans-culottes. -
Committee on Public Safety takes control of government
Its first 9 members like Bertrand Barère, Pierre Joseph Cambon and Georges Danton. -
The execution of Marie-Antoinette
Marie-Antoinette is convicted and guillotined on the Place de la Revolution. -
Festival of the Supreme Being.
Acceleration of the Terror. -
Arrest and execution of Robespierre
End of the Terror. -
End of the Convention.
In 1795 the Convention end and start the Directory and the Consulate. -
Directory
Was a five member committee which governed France.
