Storming of the Bastille
- France lost their governor, secretary of state, and the “mayor” of Paris
- July 14th 1789
The Great Fear
- July 17th 1789
- The peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts
- Many members of the aristocracy flee to Paris to become émigrés
- Émigrés- Someone who has migrated out of an area voluntarily (Emigrant)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- August 26th 1789
- Kind of like our bill of rights
- This declaration was adopted by the assembly
- It is a fundamental document of the French Revolution 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
- Émigrés are required to return back to Paris with the threat of death if they didn’t 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
Women’s March on Versailles
- AKA The October March, The October Days, or The March on Versailles
- Was one of the earliest and most significant 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 thousands 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
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