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The National Constituent Assembly was the French revolutionary group that drafted France's first constitution, establishing a constitutional monarchy and marking the end of absolutism.
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The official opening of the Estates-General of 1789 took place on May 5, 1789, in Versailles, convened by King Louis XVI to address France's financial crisis. The inaugural session was presided over by the king and attended by 1,139 deputies, representing the nobility, clergy, and the Third Estate. -
The Tennis Court Oath, 1789, oil on canvas. Author: Jacques. The Tennis Court Oath was a promise made on June 20, 1789, by the Third Estate of France, who were forced to abandon their usual meeting hall at Versailles and move to a nearby indoor tennis court. -
The August Decrees were a set of nineteen articles approved by the French National Constituent Assembly between August 4 and 11, 1789, in response to widespread peasant uprisings and the "Great Fear" in rural France. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is an important document of the French Revolution that proclaimed the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of individuals, including liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. -
The Legislative Assembly was the governing body of France from October 1 1791, to September 20, 1792, during the French Revolution
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The Flight to Varennes was the failed attempt by King Louis XVI and his family to escape from Paris on the night of June 20–21, 1791, during the French Revolution. -
The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, was a pivotal event in the French Revolution, where Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison, to seize gunpowder and free prisoners -
The National Convention was a single-chamber assembly and the governing body of France during the most radical and unstable period of the French Revolution.
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The French Declaration of War against Austria in 1792 that ...On April 20, 1792, the French Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria, marking the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars