French RevolutionC’est magnifique!

Louis XVI and family

Causes of bankrupcy

Financial crisis

Tax Corruption

Versailles

Enlightenment

Horrible crop failures and cold winters

Estates General

Abbe Sieyes and Count Mirabeau

Tennis Court Oath

Bastille

Women’s March

Power of Church broken

Oath of loyalty

Brissot

Talleyrand and Robespierre

Flight from France

Mountain leaders

New calendar

War vs. Prussia and Austria

Storming Tuilleries

Guillotine

The Reign of Terror

Committee of Public Safety

Vendee

Death of Marat

Execution of Robespierre

Thermidor reaction

lasted a year after Robespierre’s execution

eventually ended by the Directory, a group of 5 executive rulers, including Carnot