Meeting of the Estates General

The Third Estate form their national assembly for new written
constitution
May 1789
Tennis Court Oath
Key: France's debt, France politics, freedom for third estate
Flight to Varennes
King Louis XVI and Marie attempt escaping but fail and force back to
Paris
Jun. 20, 1791
Varennes
Key: imposing limit authority on Louis, denouncing Revolution
Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety ridding France of Revolution's enemies
Jul. 1793-Jul. 27, 1794
all over France
Key: Maximilien Robespierre dominate Committee, new National
Convention dominated by Committee, the virtue of the nation