- King Louis XVI locked the doors in the meeting hall which the national assembly gathered to enter.  This event made the members of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath

which they agreed not to disband until a new French constitution had been adopted.

- This happen let Louis unveil his reform. And the king promised a degree of representative government. 

                         The Women’s March

- Working class women were fiercely protesting over the high price and scarcity of bread. They ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles, 18 miles outside of the capital. when they arrived at the Palace, they got into and almost killed Queen Marie Antoinette. And the king, his family and most of the French Assembly were compelled to return to Paris by them. 

- Eventually, they succeeded in letting the king agree to provide them food and promised more in the future.

- The Women's March was an important event at the start of the French Revolution. It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king.

            Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

- They tried to flee from Paris. They donned disguises and fled the Tuileries at midnight. 

- The National convention had convicted the king of high treason in a near unanimous vote while no one voted “not guilty”.

Marie Antoinette, she was also convicted. 

Finally they were both beheaded by the guillotine.

:Marie Antoinette died in 16 October 1793.

:Louis XVI died in 21 January 1793.

Robespierre and the Reign

of Terror

 -The Reign of Terror was a period of state sanctioned violence and mass executions. Between Sept.5.1793 and July.27.1794, France’s revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.

 -Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who became one of the best known, influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution.

He led the Terror, which was caused in part by rivalry between France’s two leading political parties: the Jacobins and the Girondis. But eventually, the convention voted to arrest him and declared him and his allies outlaws.