Against the Monarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the French Revolution

On July 14, 1789 a rumor went around that King Louis XVI brought royal troops to fight all the peasants. We were furious and started a riot. More than 800 of us broke into the prison of Bastille and stole all the gunpowder; this was called the Storm of Bastille. This began a rise in the French revolution to rebel against the king. This brought the rise of a democracy from many years of abuse by the monarchy. Since this protest we have celebrated Bastille Day for our national independence

After the national assembly of France was formed by the third estate in July 1789 the noblemen and the king were mad with the general of finance Jack Necker and fired him. Many took the streets of Paris in riots and protest because they though the king was going to try to stop the national assembly. The people of the national assembly then decided to attack the

The old Regime in France has three estates. The first estate consists of the clergy, the second is the nobility and the third is the middle class to peasantry. After all that happened during the Regime such as the French economic crisis, Storming the Bastille, The Political Crisis that revolted in Paris, The Great Fear, The National Assembly, Declaration off the Rights of men, and the Reforms of the National Assembly, the French Revolution entered a radical phase. France experienced one of the bloodiest regimes as leaders sought to extend and preserve the Revolution. In 1792, disastrous battles overseas quickly inflamed revolutionaries in Paris. Parisians stormed the royal palace and slaughtered the king’s guards. In reaction, the royal family fled to the Legislative Assembly. Radicals then elected a new legislative body called the National Convention. This convention extended suffrage to be to all male citizens, not just property owners. It also abolished the monarchy and established a republic. King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a single vote. The Queen, Marie Antoinette was also executed. By 1799 the French Revolution dramatically changed France. It removed the

The members of the third estate represented 98 percent of the people but would still be considered less in many aspects by the higher classes. The Tennis Court Oath was an attempt to reform this inequality. While the third class was still suffering to survive, the second and first class was thriving, eventually leading the storming of Bastille in an attempt to get gunpowder and weapons. Peasants began a time known as the Great Fear when they were burning the homes of tax collectors, landlords, and the elites. This inspired the National Constituent Assembly to abolish feudalism on August 4, 1789. The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted. A newly elected Legislative Assembly was now in control and declared war on Austria and Prussia due to counterrevolutionary alliances. The Legislative assembly was soon replaced by the National Convention, which abolished the monarchy and established a Republic. On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine for treason and crimes against the state. This was the beginning of the most violent time of the French Revolution, known as the Reign of Terror. Thousands of enemies of the revolution were put to death by the guillotine, carried out under the orders of Robespierre. The French people eventually revolted and Robespierre received the fate he gave to many others. Power would next lie in a five-member Directory appointed by parliament. These four years in power were full of financial

French society truly cracked during the Enlightenment. The poor leadership and the checks and balances system was a result of widespread famine, economic destruction, and riots (HST 103, Fractured Feudal Society, 7/28). In 1789, King Louis XVI called for an Estates General to solve the fiscal crisis, resulting in a national assembly gathered Versailles to negotiate a new form of government. During arguments, the third estate became excluded from the main discussion room where they swore to not disband until they were fully recognized as a national assembly and had written a new constitution (McKay 658). The lack of power caused commoners to riots in Paris, which lead to the Storming of Bastille.

Parisian stormed the Bastille on July 10, 1789. Over 800 Parisians assembled outside the Bastille which was a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners. The crowd demanded weapons and gun powder which they believed were stored there. The commander of the Bastille opened fire on the crowd, which started the battle where a large amount of people were killed. The Parisians finally broke through the defenses, killed the commander and five other guards but didn’t find any weapons. This battle represented years of abuse by the monarchy and was a wakeup call to King Louis

The other two social classes had no idea what the third estate was going to do. The third estate (the lower class) met alone and was named the National Assembly; they kept meeting and starting gaining a lot of new people (“French Revolution”). This led to people getting paranoid about what they were meeting about, which ultimately led to people storming the Bastille. They stormed the Bastille on July 14, in order to get gunpowder and weapons (“French Revolution”). According to Vikram Rana, the economic instability formed one of the most important causes of the French Revolution.

After helping the colonists defeat the British in the American Revolution, France faced incredible debt. The king looked to an Assembly of Notables for help in repaying this debt, but they refused to aid him. Out of options, the king called the Estates General so that they would levy taxes in France. The Estates General was formed by members from each of the three Estates: the 1st Estate, which was comprised of the clergy; the 2nd Estate, which was comprised of the nobility; and the 3rd Estate, which was representative of everyone else in France. Excited by the prospect of getting involved in government, the 3rd Estate representatives did not just want to levy taxes for the king. The representatives from the 3rd Estate wanted to become a permanent fixture in government, so they broke off from the Estates General and called themselves the National Assembly. The National Assembly took an oath -- the Tennis Court Oath -- to not disband until they had created a constitution for France. They established a constitution and the legislative assembly convened, and they were in charge for about a year. However, once the National Convention abolished the monarchy and the King was executed, the government faced being controlled by radicals who would implement a Terror. The Terror officially began when the Convention declared it, but some events leading up to the Terror that could be considered a part of it happened before that declaration. The purging of the Girondins from the National

The French Revolution was a bloody civil war that lasted from the years 1789-1799. [1] The revolution arose out of hard economic times that had befallen France. Widespread famine and hunger, due to a grain shortage, rampaged through sections of the country. The economic crisis led to an increase in taxes on the lower classes, known as the third estate, to upkeep the lavish lifestyle of the nobility. [1] All of these are the known factors that led to the rise of the French Revolution.

  The Storming of Bastille Prison was a violent day, on the morning of July 14 an angry mob of store owners approached the prison and demanded the Military Leader to hand over gunpowder but he refused.  Meanwhile, when they reached the soldiers a quarter of

Over the time late 18th century and early 19th century, there were many changes and continuities that occurred during the French revolution. Changes include political configuration, social structure, new ideas and ideologies, relations with other countries/regions, and the role of the Catholic Church. However, there were also things that didn’t change throughout the revolution. The political involvement women had, religion, and status of poor people stayed the same. At the beginning of the time period, France was having a large amount of economic issues.

The French Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1789 was a traumatic movement that had an affect on both France and the world during the late 17th and early 18th century. This Revolution lasted from 1789 until 1814, for it made a large impact on the nation that caused a turning point in the history of the world. During this time, many events occurred like the executing of KIng Louis XIV and the rule of Napoleon.

France in the late 1700 's was based on a feudal system where they were divided into estates based on their birth. The king was at the top of the absolute monarchy and did not have to consult with anyone to pass a law. He had complete control over the country and could do things such as kill someone for no reason. This did not go well with most people and especially people of the Third Estate. Privileges were very common amongst the First Estate. One very famous privilege was being exempt for the Taille-the major tax in France at the time. The First Estate was made up of the Clergy and they were the richest and had the most power. The Second Estate was made up of the nobles who were also wealthy and held high positions in the French

The natural response of the French king was to order this assembly disbanded before it grew out of control. This was not what the nobility had intended to happen when they demanded for an assembly of the Estates-General, but the situation was rapidly spiraling out of their control. In Paris, rumors of the king sending troops to the capitol encouraged speculation of “aristocratic conspiracies.” Believing these conspiracies to be true, the city militia and the people of Paris form a Revolutionary Committee to defend them and the new National Assembly. Looting, burning, and pillaging of lord’s manors as well as rioting in Paris prevents Louis from taking further action against the National assembly, lest he insight more violence. As a result of the mob violence, Louis XVI is forced to recognize the National Assembly, essentially acquiescing the powers of an absolute monarch and leaving the French nobility vulnerable to the whims of the empowered National Assembly.

The situation escalated into pure chaos when the French people saw the arrival of foreign mercenaries and assumed the King had requested their presence to stop the commoners from moving forward with their revolutionary cause. Louis XVI’s repeated attempts to suppress his people and delegitimize the National Assembly provoked the bourgeoisie into forming an armed "National Guard" and prompted the deadly popular storming of the Bastille fortress, which was not only where the armory was kept, but was also viewed by the people as a symbol of the oppressing royal power. Finally, on July 14, 1789, the long-time-coming French Revolution had begun.