Order of Events
- Storming of Bastille – see your research. Know that France lost their governor, secretary of state, and the “mayor” of Paris. (July 14th 1789)
- The Great Fear – The peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. Many members of the aristocracy flee to Paris to become émigrés. (July 17th, 1789)
- Émigrés – someone who has migrated out of an area voluntarily. (emigrant)
- Declaration of the Rights of man and of the citizen – is adopted by the assembly. 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. It is like our Bill of Rights. (August 26th, 1789)
- Legislative Assembly – Émigrés were 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 (the 3rd estate) to become a part of the legislative assembly. (late 1789)
- Women’s March on Versailles – also known as the October March, The October Days, or the March on Versailles. It 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 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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