July 14th
- Storming of the Bastille – know that France lost their governor, secretary fo state, and the “mayor” of Paris
July 17th
- 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 émigrés
- Émigrés – someone who has migrated out of an area voluntary …….(Emigrant)
August 26th
- 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.
- Kind of compared to our bill of rights
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
- Also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution
- The march began among the women in the marketplace of 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 encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked they 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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