The French Revolution by Keith Layman

1789-The Storming of the Bastille

laymank1 — 2025-01-07 01:06:04 UTC

On July 14th, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians, sparked by rumors that the King was assembling an army to take control of the city, marched in search of weapons and ammunition. Having secured muskets, they turned to the infamous prison, the Bastille, to get ammunition. After a brief siege, they killed the commander of the prison, freed the handful of prisoners held there, and secured ammunition for their weapons. Later, a crowd would dismantle this symbol of Louis' tyrrany brick by brick.

1791-Flight to Varennes(escape of Louis XVI)

2025-01-07 14:15:24 UTC

On June 20-21 Royal family (King and Queen) tried to escape from paris but were caught shortly after and lost the faith of the people for the monarch.

Once they were returned they became virtual prisoners in the Tuileries.

This event is an act of liberty. It showed peoples feelings on the monarch after the event and their distrust towards him.

Tennis Court Oath 1789

2025-01-07 14:19:42 UTC

On June 20th, 1789, an oath was taken by members of the third estate to write a new constitution in a meeting at royal tennis courts. The third estate was at a disadvantage during voting because their group was composed of the most people but votes were counted by estate not by person. They agreed not to separate until they had reached the goal of a new constitution. After, the 3rd estate was then referred to as National Assembly, and the oath signified the first time that French citizens formally opposed Louis XVI, and the National Assembly’s refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions.

1789- The Women's March

2025-01-07 14:20:43 UTC

On October 5th, 1789 woman who worked in market places in Paris rioted over the high price and scarcity of bread. They then marched on the Palace of Versailles and stole the Versaille, forcing the King and Queen to come back to Paris.

1792- The September Massacres

2025-01-07 14:21:23 UTC

On September 2nd-6th, 1792. Mobs of ordinary Parisians killed prisoners in prisons across Paris. The people believed that the prisoners were going to rise up in a counter-revolutionary plot and be freed to assist advancing armies. The people were inflamed by food shortages and propaganda. They took place in Paris while prisoners were in transit from the Abbaye prison first, and then the massacres spread to prisons across Paris.

1790-The Civil Constitution of The Clergy

2025-01-07 14:23:34 UTC

On July 12th of 1790, the constitution of the clergy turned the remaining clergy into employees of the state that removed power from the catholic church. The clerics (the people of power in the church) had to swear they would serve the new constitution before serving the pope of rome. This essentially established more freedom for the people because of the church losing power. This happened in France during the French Revolution, affecting the government and religion at the time.

The Great Fear 1789

2025-01-07 14:23:49 UTC

Peasants and townspeople were afraid of aristocratic plans to stop the revolution, by for example bringing the Austrian army. as a result of this, they fled from Paris, spent eighty percent of their income in bread, traveled around vandalizing lords’ estates, destroying social records in order to achieve societal equality, and it served as the beginning of the end of feudalism.

2025-01-07 14:25:15 UTC

During the French Revolution a document was passed by France’s National Constituent Assembly. This document granted civil rights to some commoners, though it excluded a significant segment of the population(women).