Order of Events
- Storming of the Bastille- research. Know that France lost their governor secretary of state and the "mayor" of Paris
July 17th 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 migrated out of an area (emigrant)
Aug, 16 1789
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is adopted by the assembly.
- is a fund doc. of the French Rev. and in the history of human rights defining the indiv. and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.
Legislative Assembly
- Late 1789
- emigres are required to return back to Paris withe threat if death if they don'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 march on Versailles
- also known as the The October March. The October Days, or simply The March of Versailles was of the earliest and most significant events of the French Rev.
- the march began among women in the marketplace of id Paris who on the morning of October 5, 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 encourages by revolutionary agitator they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace if Versailles.
- next day crowd compelled king his family and most of French. Assemble to return with them to Paris.
- these events ended the independent authority of the king.
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