Order of Events
July 14th 1789
- Storming of the Bastille- see your 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 become émigrés.
- Émigrés- someone who has migrated out of an area voluntary….(Emigrant)
August 26th 1789
- 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.
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 returns so he removes that 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 in the French Revolution.
- The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 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 to Paris.
- These events effectively ended the independent authority of the king.
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