Three Estates discontent:
-Nobility & Clergy: refuse to pay taxes
-Middle Class & Peasants: abolish absolute monarchy + poor harvest
Major events
The National Assembly
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Cahiers of doléances (1789)
Tennis Coart Oath
Constituent Assembly
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Draft of Constitution
Storming of Bastille
Reforms:
-Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
-Abolition feudal rights
-Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Flight to Varennes
Legislative Assembly
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2 groups: Girondins & Jacobins
Internal (discontent nobility & non jurors) and external problems (Valmy)
Attack Tuileries palace
National Convention
Girondin
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Republic
Execution Louis XVI->New War
Internal counter revolution (La Vendée)
Jacobic
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Robespierre
Terror-executions
European War & internal counter revolution
Laws: MALE UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE & prices controlled
Robespierre-> dictatorship-Terror
Directory and Consulate
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Directory-> conservative middle class
Censitary suffrage + Constitution Year III
Consulate->Napoleon coup d´etat