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Necker is named finance minister
He was named general director of the Treasury and a year later, he replaced Anne Robert Jacques Turgot as general controller of Finance of France. -
Appointment of Robespierre as fifth deputy of the third state
When Louis XVI summoned the States General to resolve the bankruptcy of royal finances, Robespierre was chosen to represent the Third State of Artois. -
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Constitutional monarchy
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Creation of the national guard
The city of Paris decided to create a popular Parisian guard to control the revolt. This new guard played an important role the following day, date of the Storming of the Bastille. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille had been for years the prison of many victims of monarchical arbitrariness. The taking of the Bastille, symbolically represents the collapse of the absolutist power of the French monarchy. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Even when it establishes the fundamental rights of French citizens and of all men without exception, it does not refer to the condition of women or slavery, although the slavery would be abolished by the National Convention on February 4, 1794. However, it is considered a precursor document of human rights at national and international level. -
Constitution of the clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is a decree adopted in France by the Constituent National Assembly. -
Flight to Varennes
The royal family had a serious decline in its real authority, trying unsuccessfully to escape abroad disguised as a Russian aristocratic family. -
1st Constitution
The first constitution, had the reform of the French State, leaving France configured as a constitutional monarchy. The constitution says sovereignty resides in the nation and no longer in the king. It proclaims the freedom of thought and the press, and the religious freedom. -
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
The Declaration of the rights of women and citizens is a French legal text that demands the full legal, political and social assimilation of women, drafted by Olympe de Gouges, above the model of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. -
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French First Republic
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Declaration of the War against Austria
France declared the war against Austria -
The storming of the Tuileries Palace
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Execution of Louis XVI
King Louis XVI was sentenced to death in the guillotine by the revolutionary government of the Convention, found guilty of "conspiracy against public liberty and attack on national security" -
Committee of Public Safety
The revolutionary movement was threatened in France itself, by a coalition of European nations and by counterrevolutionary forces, a strong and expeditious institution was required. apply firm and harsh sentences to those who depart from revolutionary ideals, reasons why this institution was created, clearly repressive. -
2nd Constitution
It was created by the Jacobins, based on social democracy: popular sovereignty, direct universal suffrage and preferential attention to the right to existence. -
Marie Antoinette's execution
She was executed 10 months later than her husband -
Fall of Maximilien Robespierre
Robespierre was killed in the guillotine with some of his followers. -
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Directory
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3rd Constitution
The Thermidorians refused to follow the first Constitution, so they elaborated the third, favorable to the liberal and moderate bourgeoisie. -
Coup of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte, returned from the Egyptian campaign and taking advantage of the political weakness of the governing Executive Board in France, gave a surprising coup d'état with the support of the people and the army, together with some ideologues of the Revolution
