Louis XVI and the French Revolution

Louis XVI failed to escape France in support of the emigres through the north east frontier.

The Committee of Thirty argued for voting by head and maintained that political sovereignty rested with the people.

The Committee of Thirty pressed the Estates General to adopt voting arrangements that strengthened representation of the Third Estate.

The King leaves the discussion of the weight of each vote to the Estates General itself.

The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.

The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate. The Estates General was organized into three estates, respectively: the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France.

The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.

The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.

The Estates General opened the revolutionary year that produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising and Declaration of Rights.

The Third Estate’s challenge to the old order produced the National Assembly and a sequence of major revolutionary reforms.

The 3rd Estate, led by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, begin to call themselves the National Assembly.

Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself.

Tennis Court Oath, pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the 3rd Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court.

The Tennis Court Oath became a defining act in the Third Estate’s transformation into a national representative body.

This record states: The first year of the Revolution sees members of the 3rd Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and.

This record states: of the Citizen in August, and a march on Versailles.

During the mobbing of the Archbishop of Paris the French Guard refuse their duties.

The French Guard addresses a crowd at the Palais Royal saying they will not attack.

The French Guard address a crowd at the Palais Royal saying they will not attack.

The National Assembly changes its name to the Constituent Assembly. The Constituent Assembly is recognized by the King.

The National Assembly changes its name to the Constituent Assembly.

Has Neckar dismissed in order to create a stronger Government under Baron de Breteuil.

A massacre takes place by the Royal-Allemand cavalry on the Place Louis XV.

Parisians react to the dismissal of Neckar by gathering at the Palais Royal.

Louis XVI took place at St Lazre, the crowd steel quantities of grain, flour and wine.

5 out of the 6 battalions had deserted and were prominent in the attack on the Bastille.

A "citizens militia" overuns the Invalides and takes 32,000 muskets to keep order.

The National Guard is commanded by Lafayette. Announces the creation of the National Guard formed from the "citizens militia".

Appears at the Hotel de Ville wearing the Red and Blue of Paris and the Bourbon White.

In most cases these unruly peasants were responding to rumours that royalist bandits or mercenaries were sweeping the countryside. The weeks of revolt and destruction in rural areas that followed became known as the Great Fear (French, Grande Peur).

In the worst areas peasants assaulted or chased away the owners of seigneurial rights, seized and burned feudal records and even burned down chateaux owned by noblemen.

The Great Fear spread peasant unrest across France and helped drive the Assembly toward the August reforms.

Any kind of tithes, as well as any substitution for them are abolished. All seigneurial justices are abolished with no compensation.

It was reportedly prompted by the reading of a report on the misery and disorder which prevailed in the provinces.

Selling judicial and municipal offices is abolished, justice should be dispensed freely and all such magistrates are to do their duty until further instructions from the National Assembly.

The National Assembly declares the feudal system abolished. The August Decrees pave the way for the National Assembly to make the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

The abolition of the feudal system took place during the famous night session of the National Assembly on August 4th 1789.

The report declares that 'g Letters from all the provinces indicate that property of all kinds is a prey to the most criminal violence. on all sides chateaux are being burned, convents destroyed, and farms abandoned to pillage.

This record states: The taxes, the feudal dues, all are extinct. the laws are without force, and the magistrates without authority." With the hope of pacifying and encouraging the people, the Assembly, in a fervour of enthusiasm and excitement.

This record states: straightway abolished many of the ancient abuses.

The National Assembly abolished the feudal system and judicial privileges, preparing the way for wider constitutional reforms.

Made suspensive by a vote of the National Assembly carried by 673 votes to 352.

The National cockade is said to have been trampled. Holds a party in Versailles to welcome the Flanders regiment.

Armed women invade the Nat Assembly to punish those who trampled the National Cockade.

Armed women invade the National Assembly calling for bread.

Procession by the market women of Paris to petition the King in Versailles.

The National Guard arrive to restore order. Louis agrees to be escorted back to the Tuilereies.

Crowds of women appear in front of the King who then accepts the August decrees.

Strong electoral turnout produces 1,201 delegates, including: "291 nobles, 300 clergy, and 610 members of the 3rd Estate, books of grievances" (cahiers de doleances) are compiled to list problems.

Elections to the Estates General produced 1,201 delegates, while cahiers de doleances recorded grievances and proposed reforms.

Elections are held in the spring of 1789; suffrage requirements for the 3rd Estate are for French-born or naturalised males only, at least 25 years of age, who resided where the vote was to take place and who paid taxes.

The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates General.

The revolutionary year produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising, Declaration of Rights and October march on Versailles.

The Third Estate’s political transformation led to the National Assembly and further revolutionary challenges to royal authority.

Forced to witness the National Assembly abolish the nobility.

Leads celebrations and oath taking in memory of the 1st yr of the fall of the Bastille.

Louis XVI and his family are escorted back to Paris. Louis XVI and his family are arrested during an ill fated escape from France.

Louis XVI was restored to the throne under the Constitution.

Louis XVI accepts the new Constitution.

Makes a failed attempt to flee France to support emigres.

The Legislative Assembly declares war on the "King of Bohemia and Hungary".

Vetos the law to dissolve the King's Guard.

Forced to wear the Bonnet Rouge, emblem of the Revolution.

Louis XVI took place on the anniversary of the Tennis Court Oath and the Flight to Varennes. Listens to demands for new laws on priests and federes and to recall ministers. Dons the cap of liberty.

Louis is imprisoned in the Temple with his family.

The 1st session of the National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

1st session of the National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

Suspected "traitors" of the Revolution are massacred.

Vetoes the law regarding refractory priests and accused of undermining the constitution.

Louis XVI addressed the Assembly and says war will be inevitable if the emigres are not dispersed.

Louis XVI was sentenced to death.

The appeal against Louis death sentence is turned down.

Louis XVI was sent to the giuillotine in the Place de la Revolution, now the Place de la Concorde.

Tried and found guilty before the Convention.