The Storming of the Bastille was the Parisian people assault on the Bastille, which was a Paris prison, on July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution. It was caused by Necker’s dismissal on July 11, 1789, which made the people of France extremely angry and provoked the storming of the Bastille on July 14. Jacques [...]

The Women’s March on Versailles was a women riot that took place during the first stages of the French Revolution. It was spontaneously organized by women in the marketplaces of Paris, on the morning of October 5, 1789. They complained over the high price and scant availability of bread, marching from Paris to Versailles. Their [...]

The Tennis Court Oath was a political covenant signed by members from the Third Estate on June 20, 1789, during the French Revolution, by which they agreed not separate until a Constitution had been written and approved. Although it was an initiative of the Third Estate members, a majority of the representatives of the clergy [...]

The National Assembly was a transitional body of French delegates from the Third Estate that convened from June 17 to July 9, 1789, after the Estates General meetings and before the National Constituent Assembly, during the French Revolution. For the Estates General, whose sessions began on May 5, 1789, the Third Estate had been granted [...]

Louis XVI called the Estates General on August 8, 1788, setting the date of their opening on May 5, 1789. The Estates-General had not convened since 1614, at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIII. It was composed of three Estates: the First Estate, which comprised the entire clergy; the Second Estate, which was [...]

Between 1789 and 1791, the political tendencies within the National Constituent Assembly began to clarify. The aristocrat Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès and the abbot Jean-Sifrein Maury led what would become known as the right wing, which overtly opposed to the French Revolution; this party sat on the right-hand side of the Assembly. The Royalist [...]