THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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  • THE THIRD ESTATE ASKED FOR A NEW VOTING SYSTEM

    THE THIRD ESTATE ASKED FOR A NEW VOTING SYSTEM
    The Third Estate asked for a new voting system in which each representative would vote individually. When the king refused, the Third Estate declared that, as the true representative of the nation, it was forming a National Assembly.

  • LOCKED OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

    LOCKED OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
    The king locked the National Assembly out of the Estates General, so they met at a tennis court nearby. They declared that they would not leave the tennis court until France had a constitution.

  • THE CAPTURE OF THE BASTILLE

    THE CAPTURE OF THE BASTILLE
    When revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized control of the medieval armoury.

  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHT OF MAN AND CITIZEN

    DECLARATION OF THE RIGHT OF MAN AND CITIZEN
    It was born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new constitution.

  • INCREASED OF ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS

    INCREASED OF ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS
    Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and peasants simply couldn’t.

  • THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

    THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
    It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.