Estates
- In the past, the three estates would meet separately and there would only be one vote per estate
- This allowed for the first and the second estate to always beat the third
- The king sided with the nobles again and they were outvoted
Order of Events
July 1789-
- Storming of Bastille (know that France lost their governor, secretary of state, and the mayor of Paris)
- The Great Fear- the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. Many member of the aristocracy flee Paris to become emigres.
- Emigres- someone who has migrated out of an area voluntary
August 1789-
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen- comparable to the Bill of Rights adopted by the assembly and is a fundamental document of the French Rev. 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 the new blood to become part of the legislative assembly
Womens March on Versailles
- also known as the october march, the october days and it was one of the earliest and most signifigant events of the French Rev.
- The march began among women in the marketplace of Paris who on the morning of October 5th were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread
- market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and encouaged by rev, they ransacked the armory and marched to the palace
- The next day the crowd compelled the king
- These events ended the independence of the king
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