French Revolution 1789-1799

1. (1789-1791) National Assembly

1.1. Louis XVI did not want a written constitution

1.2. News of Louis's Plan to use military force Against the national assembly arrives on July 14 1789

1.3. People storm the bestial killing guards, freeing prisoners, and collecting gunpowder

1.4. King Louis XVI is forced to wave the tri-colored flag.

1.5. The tri-colors appear on cockades on clothing worn buy people who supported the french revolution

2. Attack On Versailles October 5th 1789

2.1. The Parisian Commune fear that Louis XVI would have foreign troops Invade France

2.2. A group of women attack the Versailles and force the royal family to move to Paris

2.3. The Royal family become virtual prisoners in the Tuileirs Palace for the next couple of years

3. Changes Under the National Assembly 1791

3.1. Decimation of the Rights of man

3.2. Many Nobles Left France and became emigres

3.3. Reforms In local goverment

3.4. End Of Special Privileges

3.5. End of the European Fedal System

4. Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)

4.1. Royal Family Sought help from Austria

4.2. Two polictical parties were formed -Girondists -Jacobins

5. Constitution of 1791

5.1. France Became a limited monarcy

5.2. Laws were created by the Legislative Assembly

5.3. Voting was limited to taxpayers

6. Convention (1792-1795)

6.1. Convention Met on September 22 and the first french convention was established

6.2. Girondists represented the Rich middle class and Jacobins represented the working.

7. Abolishment of the monarchy

7.1. The Royal family was seen as a threat to the revolution

7.2. The Royal Family was charged with treason

7.3. The Royal Family were guillotined in the next years to come.

8. Reign Of terror 1793-1794

8.1. Danton and his Jacobin political party came to dominate French politics

8.2. Despite military successes, the Convention continued to face problems domestically

8.3. Committee of Public Safety way founded and Those accused of treason were tried by the Committee’s Revolutionary Tribunal and Approximately 15,000 people died on the guillotine

9. Constitution of the Year III of the Republic (1795)

9.1. With the foreign invaders vanquished and the Reign of Terror at an end, the Convention was finally able to inaugurate its new constitution

10. Napoleon Bonaparte, coming to power through a coup d’état – who would end the ten-year period (1789-1799) known as the French Revolution.