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Title: History French Revolution & Napoleon
Description: These History notes start with the beginning of the french revolution and end with the rise to power of Napoleon. They are aimed at anyone of any age as they mainly explain the flow of thing and the sequence / seasons on why and how they happened. They are typed out so they are legible by anyone. I hope you'll like them.

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The population before the Estates
General on the 5th of May 1789
Approximate Data (includes all three estates)
Anger

Poor %

Happyness
Approximate Data
(includes all three estates)

Wealthy %

Hunger (High
price of
bread)

Estates
General

Tennis Court
Oath

National
Assembly

• It was the first meeting in which all social classes were represented
• Louis thought it would have calmed down the already angry population
• Happened on the 5th of May 1789

• It as a eeti g of the third estate i
done next
• It happened on the 20th of June 1789

hi h as dis ussed hat had to e

• It was meeting of the representatives of the First, Second and Third Estates in
which the future of the Third Estate was being decided, but when the Third
Estate representatives came to know that voting was not counted per person
but it was counted as 1 vote per class voting for or against, they became
frustrated and this caused the Storming of the Bastille
• Happened on the 14th of July 1789

Storming of the
Bastille

Declaration of
the Rights of Man

March to
Versailles

• The Storming of the Bastille took place on the 14th of July 1789, when the Third
Estate took over the Bastille (a French Military fort and prison), freeing 7 political
prisoners and getting hold of many different guns
...

• The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the
rights of man
...

• It was one of the most important events of the French Revolution

King tries to
escape

National
Convention

Death of the
king

• On the night of the 20-21 June 1791, king Louis XVI tries to escape from his
pala e i Paris ut does t a age to ake it to his desti atio
...

• The results were: 361 in favor of Death, 26 Death with Reprieve, 288
Imprisonment, 28 absent
...

• He was killed with a guillotine
...

• The French were happy of his
way of ruling and called him the
so of the re olutio
...

• They were active in the
Legislative Assembly and
National Convention from
1791 to 1795 during the
French Revolution
Title: History French Revolution & Napoleon
Description: These History notes start with the beginning of the french revolution and end with the rise to power of Napoleon. They are aimed at anyone of any age as they mainly explain the flow of thing and the sequence / seasons on why and how they happened. They are typed out so they are legible by anyone. I hope you'll like them.