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Attempted to reform the tax system and cut costs and faced resistance from the privileged classes. He tried to flee France in a bid to rally royalist support and reclaim power.
King Louis XVI
Parisian crowds in search of weapons attacked and captured the royal armory. As a victory by ordinary Parisians over a representation of the king’s absolute power, the event quickly became a symbol of revolutionary struggle.
The Storming of the Bastille
Consisted of the nobility, composed of no more the 350,000 people who owned about 25 to 30 percent of the land.
Exemption from most taxes and had access to high-ranking positions in the military, government, and church.
The Second Estate
This was to balance out the government's power
2 Councils
5 Directors would lead the country
The Directory
The Queen of France during the French Revolution. She was popular for her charm and beauty, but her reputation suffered because of her lavish spending and indulgence.
Marie Antoinette
Dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non-privileged classes of the French nation during the meeting of the Estates-General at the beginning of the French Revolution.
The Tennis Court Oath
Constituted the overwhelming majority of the French population.
Different levels of education and wealth.
Responsible for paying nearly all of France's taxes.
The Third Estate
The vocal of what the French people needed
From June 17 to July 9, 1789, it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate
its formal name was National Constituent Assembly
National Assembly (June 1789)
A French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution.
composed a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Marquis de Lafayette
King Louis XVI of France, his wife Queen Marie Antoinette, and their children attempted to escape from Paris. This would would mark the Royal Family’s as traitors
The Flight to Varennes
Consisted of the clergy and about 130,000 people.
It was exempt from most taxes and instead contributed a "voluntary gift" to the crown every five years, often much less than what other estates paid.
The First Estate
The representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility —which were privileged minorities—and the Third Estate
The Estates-General
A leader within the Jacobin Club, a powerful group of the revolution’s most radical supporters. Under his leadership the Reign of Terror, where thousands were executed on charges of treason or anti-revolutionary sympathies.
Maximilien Robespierre
A Crowd of Parisian market women marched on Versailles, demanding reforms. They surrounded the palace to return King Louis XVI to Paris
Women's March on Versailles
The Second Estate
Goals: restore stability & keep the most important aspects of the revolution
The Directory
After the French Revolution, he became like a dictator of France. He went to military school at the age of 9. He had great military strategies. He took over most of Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leaded by Maximilien Robespierre and The Jacobin Club, this event is where thousands were executed on charges of treason or anti-revolutionary sympathies.
The Regin of Terror
Were required to pay taxes, serve in military if needed, and perform various forms of labor. The taxes included the taille, the gabelle, and the tithe
The Third Estate
To protect the gains of the Revolution against a possible aristocratic reaction.
Identified as a extreme and violence group and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794.
The Jacobin Club