As a result, the National Assembly is angry and storms a castle called the Bastille to release its prisoners and also gain weapons in order to defend themselves from King Louis XVI's troops.

English: Liberty, equality, fraternity.

They were:

The Girondins

• Had the greatest power from 1789 to 1792.

• They wanted a democracy and were led by Jacques-Pierre Brissot. (Sometimes the group was called The Brissotins by enemies.)

• Endorsed the idea of foreign war in order to unite France.

• Received a lot of support from outside Paris.

The Jacobins

• Had the greatest power from 1793 to 1794.

• Consisted of revolutionaries who completely supported equality in the government.

• Led by Maximilien Robespierre.

• Utilized violence to oppose any kind of resistance during the Reign of Terror.

• Conducted the movement of dechristianization.

• Received a lot of support "from groups in Paris."

• Mostly everyone in the group encouraged King Louis XVI to be executed.

Montagnards

• Had the greatest power from 1793 to 1794.

• Led by Jean-Baptiste Lindet.

• Were against the Girondins and allies with the Jacobins.

• They were the most revolutionary group within the National Convention.

• This group also directed the Committee of Public Safety.

• Montagnards means mountain men. They were called this because members sat on higher benches of the assembly. They also had robust support from people called the sansculottes, who were republicans from Paris in a lower class.

The Plain

• Had the greatest power from 1792 to 1795.

• Led by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyés

• Were actually allied with the Girondins but voted to execute King Louis XVI with the Montagnards and Jacobins.

• Were the largest group in the National Convention and were also moderate when referring to their political policies and perspectives.

• Provided assistance in the overthrowing of extreme Jacobins in the year of 1794.

• Called as "La Pleine" which means The Plain due to how they sat in the assembly's lower levels.

As a result, the National Assembly was dispatched to dissolve the intense situation. However, things slipped out of control and the National Assembly shot at the Jacobins and caused 50 deaths.

Maximilien Robespierre

• Says that the judgments of humans cannot ever be enough for the justification of killing another person but was the reason for the executions of a vast amount of people. Many, many, of whom were innocent and did not do anything wrong.

• He was part of the French upper class called the Bourgeois who turned into a Jacobin who was radical.

• Desired to establish "a republic of virtue" using reason to get rid of France's past. This process included: a new calendar, churches in Paris being closed, the promotion of the need for education, and no sundays which meant that every 10th day of the month was allotted to rest.

Deschristianization of France

• The word "saint" was taken out of street names.

• Churches experienced violence through pillaging.

• A new calendar that had every 10th day off for rest. The calendar started on the 22nd of September, which was "the 1st day of the French Republic."

The Committee of Public Safety

• The Committee of Public Safety was a group of 12 people that wanted to protect the French Revolution from enemies and also apply its ideals.

• Maximilien Robespierre began to execute all the people who opposed the Revolution using guillotines.

Facts About The Revolution:

• Robespierre thought that anyone who opposed his leadership was an enemy and that they weren't as revolutionary about what they believed in when compared to him.

• During the Reign of Terror, around 40 thousand people were killed through executions. These executions defeated the purpose of the Revolution because 85% of the 40 thousand people were peasants who the entire Revolution was for.

End of The Reign of Terror:

• The National Convention became afraid of losing their lives because of The Reign of Terror and turned against Robespierre and executed him on the 28th of July, 1794.

• Nonradical members of the National Convention created a nonradical system of government called The Directory.

Red: Everything that happened in the year of 1789 to an overview of 1790.

Orangish Brown: The Early 1790s.

Green: The Reign of Terror

Blue: The Directory & the Napoleonic Era

Purple: Pre-Revolution and the Causes + Types of Government Throughout the French Revolution + Post-Revolution