Constitutional Monarchy Flashcards
(93 cards)
Experiment in the constitutional Monarchy
1789-92
Last procession of the Ancien Regime
4 May 1789
Estates General begins
5May 1789
Third Estate splits and some clerics join
10 June 1789
By 491 Votes to 90 Third estate call themselves the National Assembly
17 June 1789
Clergy Joined
19 June 1789
Supposed to be a presentation for a reform package
23 June 1789
Tennis Court Oath
20 June 1789
Difficult royal session
23 June 1789
King moves 48,000 extra troops into Paris
26 June 1789
King agrees to call them National Assembly and recognises voting by head
27 June 1789
30,000 mercenaries in the capital
4 July 1789
Necker dismissed
11 July 1789
Bread prices highest since 1715
14 July 1789
Breakdown of order in Paris
12-13 July 1789
Custom posts destroyed
40 put of 54
Storming of the Bastille
14 July 1789 (32,000 muskets)
King persuaded to go to Paris to address Parisians
17 July 1789
Great fear
17 July – 3 August 1789
August Decrees
4 August 1789
Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
- drawn up and past
26 August 1789
Banquet in Flanders
Late September
October days (women march to Versailles – accept August decrees and dec rights man)
5 October 1789