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The French Revolution - Coggle Diagram
The French Revolution
The society = organised in 3 estates
The clergy
nobles or nobility
The third estate
14th july 1789
The storming of the Bastille
The royal jail
ended in 1804 with a coup
long term causes
the war of independance in America
cost a lot
the king need money
rise of taxes
Meeting of the general estates (5th may 1789)
The Enlightenment
the end of the Ancien Regime
The 1st Republic
Louis XVI
absolute monarch
executed / guillotine
he had all the power
to put in jail people without any judgment
with letter of sign