EVENTS
14th July 1789: A crowd of Parisians gather outside a fortress demanding gunpowder. 98 are killed, 7 prisoners released and the Governor surrenders, and is later murdered by the crowd.
What is the fall of the Bastille?
Author of 'What is the Third Estate?'.
Who is Abbe Sieyes?
DAILY DOUBLE
Members of the Third Estate who were delegates to the Estates-General and formed the National Assembly.
Members of the Third Estate felt isolated because they were forced to wear clothes of this colour to the Estates-General.
What is black?
DAILY DOUBLE
'The people can only be controlled by me.'
20th June 1789: After finding themselves locked out of the palace, the Third Estate gather together and swear not to disband until France has a Constitution in this famous event immortalised by Jacques-Louis David.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Mayor of Paris who was elected President of the National Assembly.
Who is Jean-Sylvain Bailly?
17th June 1789: The Third Estate, using Sieyes language, declare themselves to be this.
What is the National Assembly?
4000 of these were published in the lead up to the Estates-General as censorship had been lifted.
What are pamphlets?
Who is King Louis XVI?
What are the Reveillon Riots?
Childhood friend of Robespierre, this journalist urged the Parisian crowd to take up arms and search Paris for gunpowder.
Who is Camille Desmoulins?
What is the National Guard?
During the Great Fear, the peasants destroyed these symbols of noble privilege.
What are dovecotes?
'Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people and that we will go only if driven out by bayonets'
11th July 1789: This event led to the people of Paris taking to the streets to search for weapons and gunpowder.
What is the dismissal of Necker?
Governor of the Bastille, he surrendered to the Parisian crowd and while being escorted back to the centre of Paris was set upon by the crowd who kicked and stabbed him to death, severing his head and parading it on a pike.
Who is Governor de Launay?
This group broke into chateaux to burn feudal documents and destroy symbols of privilege during the Great Fear.
Who are the peasants?
In an image titled 'The Awakening of the Third Estate', the Third Estate is breaking these as the First and Second Estates watch in horror.
What are chains?
'…a few heads chopped off…but they were the heads of guilty people'
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
4th August 1789: The National Assembly abolished privilege and venal offices, established equality of taxation and abolished feudal dues.
What is the Night of Patriotic Delirium? (Abolition of Feudalism)
Who is the Comte d'Artois?
What is Les Invalides?
The Bastille was seen as a physical symbol of royal despotism and ingrained privilege as its cannons were trained on this working class suburb.
What is Saint Antoine?
'The defection of the Army was not one of the causes of the Revolution, it was the revolution itself'.
Who is a French aristocrat?