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FRENCH REVOLUTION

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The storming of the Bastille

  • July 14th, 1789 was the first act of violence which got the 1st and 2nd Estates to pay attention and to see what they were capable of.

THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN

  • August 27, 1789 first try at constructing a government. the monarchy doesn't have all the power anymore.

The Women’s March on Versailles

  • October 5, 1789 They forced the King and his family to leave and go back to France

September Massacres

  • September 1792 The waves of killings in the September massacres mark a horrible history between the people of Paris and the politicals.
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EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI

JANUARY 21, 1793 THIS SHOWED THAT THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A MONARCHY.
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Execution of Marie Antoinette

  • October 16th, 1793
  • This event showed that there was no more monarch and Paris was a republic.
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REIGN OF TERROR

  • July 1793-1794
  • Justice, Prompt, severe, inflexible. This was the end of the revolution.
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