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The Estates General was an assembly comprised of representatives from the three french estates, the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. These people would be summoned by the king to decide on choices made in France. The assembly met for the last time on the fifth of May 1789, the third estate was upset because although they outnumbered the other two estates, their vote could still be overruled. The third estate met on their own and invited the other two estates to join them. They formed the National Assembly and began to take matters into their own hands against the wishes of the king.

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On July 14th, 1789, French revolutionaries stormed and successfully seized control of the state prison of Bastille. People were afraid that the king was going to shut down the National Assembly. Not only that, but due to poor harvest the price of bread had been steadily rising, and people were going hungry. The prison was a symbol that represented the oppressive regime of France. This was one of the first big steps towards overthrowing the French monarchy.

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - 1789

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - 1789

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The declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a document created to establish the basic rights of man in France. The main points of the document include, all men are born equal, everyone has a right to liberty, security, and their own property, the law is the general will, and freedom of speech. This finally gave the people of France a set of protected rights that could not be overlooked or ignored.

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On October 5th, 1789, a large group of women in Paris started to revolt, upset over the insanely high prices of bread. Thousands of marchers walked hours in the rain to the Palace of Versailles to confront King Louis XVI. The king agreed to send them food, but, many people were still not satisfied. Some of the crowd managed to break into the castle, fighting broke out and multiple guards were killed. The king agreed to come to Paris and went to live in the Tuileries Palace, he never returned to Versailles and the palace was locked and boarded up.

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After the king and queen had been forced out of their palace in Versailles, they had been confined to Paris and were under watch of the National Guard. King Louis was forced to allow many polices he disagreed with and cooperate with the revolution. The king and queen devised a plan to escape to the Austria Netherlands border, they disguised themselves and left the palace in the night. They made it to the town of Varennes-en-Argonne where they were detained and returned to Paris. This event caused distress within the National Assembly as it destroyed all hope that the king would ever support the revolution. They told the public that the king did not choose to flee, but that he had been kidnapped. But the story quickly fell apart, as King Louis had left behind a manifesto detailing his hatred of the revolution and the constitution.

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The Reign of Terror was the period during the French Revolution when the Committee of Public Safety led by Maximilien de Robespierre had control over the government. Anyone who was considered an enemy of the revolution was arrested and then tried. Around 17000 people were executed, but thousands more were executed without trial or died in prison. The death toll is suspected to be about 40,000. This ended when the national convention turned against Robespierre and voted to have him arrested, on July 28th 1794 Robespierre and his supporters were executed.

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Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as one of the greatest military leaders of all time. He was a member of the french army during the revolution and held ranks of second lieutenant of artillery, brigadier general and he accomplished many military feats against Britain, Russia, and Austria. In 1799 he participated in a coup d'etat against the French Directory and ended up as France's leading political figure. He introduced governmental and economic reforms to post-revolution France. His most significant accomplishment was his legal system known as the Napoleonic Code, many of these laws are still in place today. In 1804 he was named the first emperor of France.