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The third estate consists of the rest of the population. Which is about 98% of the population that was in the third estate, these people were peasants, farmers, and craftspeople. They had to work a certain number of days for free for the local lord or the king of each year. Louis XVI called a meeting because the French government was having a financial crisis. After arguing over how they would vote for several days, the Third Estate began to take matters into their own hands. They met on their own and invited members of the other estates to join them. On June 13, 1789, the Third Estate declared itself the "National Assembly." They would begin making their own laws and running the country. The representatives of each estate at the Estates General assembly were elected by the people from their estate.

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On the day of July 14, 1789, the revolutionaries approached the Bastille. They demanded that the military leader of the Bastille will surrender the prison and hand over the gunpowder. The revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille were mostly craftsmen and store owners who lived in Paris. They were members of a French social class called the Third Estate. Over the next five months, the Bastille was destroyed and turned into a pile of ruins. The Storming of the Bastille set off a series of events that led to the overthrow of King Louis XVI and the French Revolution. Around 100 of the revolutionaries were killed during the fighting.

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During the Reign of Terror, France was ruled by a group of men called the Committee of Public Safety. The leader of this group was a man named Robespierre. Robespierre was also the leader of a radical group called the Jacobins. The Jacobins felt that it was their duty to preserve the revolution, even if it meant violence and terror. Around 17,000 people were officially executed in France, including 2,639 in Paris. Most of these deaths were from the guillotine. The guillotine was a device used to execute people during terror

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During the Tennis Court Oath, members of the third estates, broke away to form  their 1st government, called the National Assembly. This assembly passed the Declaration of  the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789. During that when the member broke into the tennis court, pledging to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution. This pledge became known as the Tennis Court Oath and that's how they got the name. The Constitution of 1791, is the new constitution that had to be drawn up. The main objective of the constitution was to frontier the power of the monarchy. Sans-Culottes and Jacobins did come together and wanted an end to the monarchy. Sans-Culottes was a radical group

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The March of Versailles was on October 5, 1789. During the March of Versailles, there were six thousand women that marched thirteen miles from Paris to Versailles. They traveled that far to get the the King (Louis XVI) and Queen (Marie Antoinette) beautiful palace. When they got to the king and queen, the woman constantly shouted "Bread''.  The angry mob of women wanted nothing but bread because, they were use to eating two pounds a day. A LOT RIGHT!!  In 1789, the main food of consumers was bread. This event gave revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. The March on Versailles was steps toward democracy. This is because when the women forced Louis XVI, to take his family to Paris, they were helping the eventful abolishment of monarchy in France.

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Napoleon was a 5 foot 2 legend of France. He was born on the island of, Corsica. Napoleon rapidly gained power through the ranks of his military success. When he went into the military he was only the age of 9 or 10. That's where he learned most of his skills and intelligence. Because of his military success it was easy for him to become Emperor of France. December 2nd, 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate.

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The revolution did get rid of the monarchy and the aristocracy, but it didn't lead to a democracy. Instead, the revolution provided a set of ideas. It was, of course, led by people supported the ideas of liberty, fraternity, and equality. Therefore also Napoleon's slogan "order, security, and efficiency. This is a major aspect of democracy. The initial drive of the Revolution was create a Republic in which all citizens were equal before the law, had a freedom of speech and religion, and last and certainly not least citizens had equal rights. A key element in the revolution was revulsion against the inequalities of the French society, not just as they were common in people's lives but also as far as they were enshrined in the legal and political system. Such as being born and a noble family and the peasants weren't able to move up in a higher class system, which was unfair. Although the French Revolution was eventually, after a long period of uncertainty, degenerated into the Terror and the dictatorship of napoleon, its initial ideals were democratic including secularism, the rights of women, the 1st amendment and redistribution of property. These ideals eventually became enshrined in the democratic government of France in the second half of the 19th century and are central to French society today.