THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE STORMING OF BASTILLE

• 3rd estate released prisoners from their cells.
• First violent action of the French Revolution.
• Happened on July 14th, 1789.
• Only around 7 prisoners were inside the Prison.

THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN

• Gave all equal rights to all men.
• There was no longer a higher class with more power.
• Happened on August 4th, 1789.
• Gave less/no power to the King.
• Document was influenced by Thomas Jefferson & Enlightenment philosophers.

THE WOMEN'S MARCH ON VERAILLES

• Women marched from Paris to Versailles demanding bread, all the bread that the palace had hoarded.
• Instead of killing the royal family, they made King Louis XVI come to Paris to see what he has done.
• They took the King and Queen as Prisoners of the 3rd Estate.

SEPTEMBER MASSACRES

• The September massacres was a wave of killings in Paris in the year of 1792.
• The killings lasted 5 days (September 2nd to September 7th).
• Reason it happened: People believed royalist armies would attack Paris and release the Prisoners so they could join them.
• By September 6th, 1200-1400 Prisoners were executed.

REIGN OF TERROR

• Most brutal/violent event during the French Revolution.
• Killed more than 10,000 people.
• Over 300,000 people were arrested.
• Many prisoners died in Prison.
• Happened in 1794.