Question

A brief about main events of the french revolution

Answer 1

Storming the Bastille

July 14th, 1789. There had been a rumor that the king had been planning a military coup against the national Assembly. The people decided to defend their city and marched to the Bastille prison for gunpowder. The governor of the prison refused them, so they fought until the prison surrendered. This saved the National Assembly. Is now called the "Bastille Day" and is France's Independence Day.

Women's march on Versailles

On October 5, 1789 an angry mob of Parisian women stormed through Versailles demanding Louis XVI end the nationwide food shortage and that the royal family return to Paris with them.

Meeting of the Estates General

meeting that opened at Versailles on May 5, 1789 to discuss political and economic reforms; $$$ cash problems, need of taxes, each estate had 1 vote, third estate wanted each deputy to have a vote

National Assembly

3rd estate declaration that it was the only true govt. in france

Tennis Court Oath

A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

Great Fear

A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.