French Revolution
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- Meeting of the Estates General
- Tax the third estate!
- France is broke. How should we solve this?
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- Tennis Court Oath
- We are never to separate, and will meet wherever circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution.
- Storming of the bastile
- France ran into a financial crisis, and King Louis XVI didn't know how to solve it. He called the Estates General for the first time in 175 years to hold a vote by order on should be done. Though the third estate made up over 90% of the population, they got the same amount of votes as the second and first estate, meaning that they would often be out voted.
- March on Versailles
- Seeing that little would come of the Estates General, the first estate broke away to form the National Assembly. The king, startled by this, locked them out of their meeting house. The NA promptly carried out the meeting in a nearby indoor tennis court. They made the Tennis Court oath in which they pledged to keep meeting until they made a constitution. They would eventually make one in 1791
- Reign of Terror
- Needing weapons to support their revolution, revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastile, believing much firepower to be stored there.
- Rise of Napoleon
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- Let's get this bread
- Radicals took over the head of the revolution with Robes Pierre as their leader. Trying to establish a republic that would not fall, anti-revolutionaries were executed via the Guillotine. King Louis himself would also be executed.
- As the revolution started to fall, one Napoleon Bonaparte, who had served in many of France's wars to much military success. Using this rise to power, he became the Emperor of France. He would make many law reforms for the better, aside from the exclusion of women's rights.
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