The French Revolution

Storming the Bastille, March on Versailles, Flight to Varennes

After the National Assembly is established...

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Riots occur in Paris and spread throughout France

- Louis XVI sends 20,000 soldiers to Paris

- Louis fires Jacques Necker
- The people of France begin to arm themselves

Storming The Bastille

July 1789

- The Bastille was a prison and weapons fortress

- The governor lowers the drawbridge
- The revolutionaries ransack the Bastille

Storming the Bastille

Veteran armies... have never performed greater
prodigies [feats] of valor than this leaderless multitude of
persons belonging to every class, workmen of all trades
who, mostly ill-equipped and unused to arms, boldly
affronted the fire from the ramparts and seemed to mock
the thunderbolts the enemy hurled at them....
What does this quote say about who is leading the fight for
independence?
(quote from Keversau, a participant in the Storming of the Bastille)

Women March on Versailles

October 1789

- Louis refuses to sign the National Assembly into law

- Crowds of market women gather in streets and
collect weapons
- Louis is forced to leave Versailles and live in Paris
- Surrounded by a 60,000 Revolutionaries, Louis,
Marie, and their son march to the Tuileries Palace

Flight to Varennes

June 1791

- Louis XVI is deeply unhappy with the Civil Constitution

- Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children secretly
escape the Tuileries
- Louis XVI and his family are caught in Varennes, 50km
away from escaping France

The Storming of The Tuileries

August 1792

- France declares war on Austria

- Rumours began that there was an Austrian
Committee inside Tuileries
- 20, 000 armed men and women storm the Tuileries
and dethrone the King

Overthrow of the Monarchy

Sept. 1792 / Jan. 1793

- Louis and his family are imprisoned

- Louis is put on trial for high treason
- Louis is found guilty and was beheaded in public by guillotine