French revolution
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- Taxes
- nooo!
- You must all pay your taxes!
- Starvation
- i'm so hungry.
- Enlightenment philosophies
- WHERE IS ALL MY POWER
- Three unfair taxes were the taille, gabelle, and vingtième. These were arbitrarily applied to French citizens, but the clergy and nobility were usually exempt.
- Estates General meeting/Tennis Court Oath
- A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation in the countryside. Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke.
- Storming of the Bastille
- The Enlightenment, a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
- Women’s March to Versailles
- Our kids are staring
- There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
- were together no matter what
- 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.
- Finally Bastille is destroyed
- The March on Versailles. Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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