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The French Revolution (firstestate (Since the Middle Ages, France's…
The French Revolution
Since the Middle Ages, France's population had been divided by law into the "Three Estates"
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Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General at Versailles on May 5, 1789
Third Estate voted that all including nobility and clergy were to pay taxes also. But since their were less of the third estate and more first and second estate they lost in voting terms
On June 20, 1789 they went for the normal usual meeting only for them to find out that the doors have been locked. They then later marched to a nearby indoor tennis court soon to be called the "Tennis Court Oath"
Reign of Terror
For roughly a year during 1793 to 1794 the Committee of Public Safety took control of the government.
The Reign of Terror or simply The Terror was a period of about 11 months during the French Revolution. ... The Terror ended ten days later, when several important leaders of the Reign of Terror were executed, including Saint-Just and Robespierre. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people.
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Tennis Court Oath
Took an oath to promise from after today that they meet up constantly to take votes and discuss anything anyone has to say.
Storming of the Bastille
When the Committee of Public Safety decided to make an example of Lyon, 1,880 citizens of that city were executed. People of all classes were killed during the terror
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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.
