1. The French Revolution

4. The Tennis Court Oath June 20, 1789

5. The Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789

6. French Revolution Phase I
Limited Monarchy
National Assembly

7. Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen August 1789

8. Women’s Bread March October 1789

9. Civil Constitution of the Clergy 1790

10. Return from Varennes June 1791

11. Cartoons of Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI

12. Liberty Leading the People France declares war on Austria 1792
- Eugène Delacroix

13. French Revolution Phase II
Republic
National Convention

14. The King on Trial December 1792

15. King Louis XVI executed January 1793

17. Jacobins take over the legislature

18. Maximilien de Robespierre, George-Jacques Danton & Jean-Paul Marat
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien de Robespierre, George-Jacques Danton & Jean-Paul Marat

19. Reign of Terror July 1793 – July 1794

20. Robespierre executed 1794

22. French Revolution Phase III
Oligarchy
The Directory

23. Bicameral Legislature
The Directory
Bicameral Legislature
Council of Five Hundred (30 yrs old)
Proposed legislation
Council of Ancients (250 ppl – 40 yrs old)
Approved or rejected legislation
The Directors
Chosen by the Ancients from a list provided by the Council
One retired each year
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of labor, no armed assemblies & no public meetings of political societies

24. French Revolution Phase IV
Dictatorship
Napoleonic Era

25. The Consulate
Three Consuls with the first having the most authority
Napoleon became 1st Consul
1802 plebiscite was passed naming Napoleon Consul for life

26. Napoleon Bonaparte