First estate- high ranking officials of the church, privileged class second estate- nobles, privileged class third estate- everyone else (commoners), unprivileged class
Storming The Bastille
First Estate
Second estate
They kept spending money on lots of lavishes things for example Queen Marie spent money on dresses and fashion. King Louis XVI lavishes money on himself and palaces.
Radicals Take Over/ Reign Of Terror
Louis XVI did not actually want a written constitution. News of his plan to use military force against the National Assembly The Third Estate created the National Assembly
Napoleon's
Angry members of the Third Estate storm the Bastille This becomes Frances Independence Day In August, National Assembly Issues the Declaration on the rights of man for example ( Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech Freedom of the press, ETC)
A new group called The Convention takes over and abolished the Monarchy. Louis XVI was guillotined (beheaded) on January 21,1793 Marie Antoinette was also beheaded on October 16,1793In the Reign of terror 17,000 people were executed also after 1 1/2 years of beheadings, The convention had enough killings and beheaded Maximilian Robespierre
Napoleons start making a name for himself as both a military leader and as a National Leader, Open jobs based on talent Napoleons legacy was the Napoleonic code- Equality of all citizens- religious toleration, Spain no longer a power, loses power in the colonies in South America
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