- order of events
- july 14th, 1789
- storming of the bastille--see your research. know that france lost their governor, secretary of state, and the mayor of paris
- july17, 1789
- the great fear--the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. many members of the aristocracy flee paris to become emigres
- emigres-someone who has migerated out of an area voluntarily..(emigrant)
- august 26th 1789
- declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen is adopted by the assembly
- is a fundamental document of the french recolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal
- legislative assembly
- late 1789
- emigres are required to return back to paris with the threat of death if they didnt return
- king is still scared to return so he removes the idea that they have to come back
- this allows for new blood (3rd estate) to become part of the legislative assembly
- womens march on versailles
- also known as the october march, the october days, or simply the march on versilles, was one of the earliest and most signifi ant events of the french revolution
- the march began among women in the marketplaces of paris who, on the morning of october 5th, 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread
- the market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousans and, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the palace of versailles
- the next day, the crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the french assembly to return with them to paris
- these events effectively ended the independent authority of the king
- july 14th, 1789
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