https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn Made with a computer :T en-us 2017-12-07 15:25:48 UTC 2017-12-11 15:25:58 UTC hello@padlet.com keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214162344 The estates general was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy the first estate, the nobility the second estate, and the commoners or the third estate. The First estate are the rich and wealthy and don't have to pay or pay as much taxes than the third estate the poor people.
 Summoned by King Louis XVI, it was brought to an end when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, inviting the other two to join, against the wishes of the King. This signals the outbreak of the French Revolution.]]> 2017-12-07 15:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214162344 keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214518409 The Storming of the Bastille French: Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuses of power; its fall was the home base of the French Revolution.]]> 2017-12-08 15:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214518409 keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214523189 The Declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson, working with General Lafayette, who introduced it. Influenced also by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. It is included in the beginning of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth Republic (1958) and is still current. Inspired by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide.]]> 2017-12-08 15:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214523189 keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214527192 The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.]]> 2017-12-08 15:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/214527192 keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/215045269 On 17 January 1793 Louis was condemned to death for "conspiracy against the public liberty and the general safety" by a close majority in Convention: 361 voted to execute the king, 288 voted against, and another 72 voted to execute him subject to a variety of delaying conditions. The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde.]]> 2017-12-11 15:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/215045269 keonmc2019 https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/215056057 The Directory was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire (8–9 November 1799) and replaced by the French Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution. Napoléon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814.]]> 2017-12-11 15:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/keonmc2019/uq1wkm60aahn/wish/215056057