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Reign of Louis XIV
- 1643 - 1715
- Known as "The Sun King"
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Reign of Louis XV
1715 - 1774
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Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws"
- 1748
- Idea of speration of powers
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Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
- 1762
- Idea of equality, of men joined together under a social contract so power resides in the people
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Denis Diderot and d'Alembert's "Enclyclopedie" published between:
1751- 1775
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Voltaire's "Treatise on Toleration"
1763
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France involved in American War of Independance
1776 - 1783
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Necker's publication of "Compte Rendu au Roi"
1781
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Calonne proposes to convoke Assembly of Notables
1786
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Assembly of Notables is opened on
22 February 1787
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Assembly of Notables is closed on
25 May 1787
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Brienne proposes modified reforms to Parlement of Paris:
Beginning of July 1787
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Parlement rejects tax reforms on
2 July 1787
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King Louis XVI exiles the parlement to Troyes on
15 August 1787
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Parlement recalled to Paris:
September 1787
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Royal Session & King's Lit de Justice, forcing tax reforms through:
19 November 1787
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King suspends all parlements and through another lit de justice, replaces with Plenary Courts:
8 May 1788
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Riots and Day of Tiles in Grenoble
June 1788
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Brienne announces King will accept submissions on composition of E.G:
5 July 1788
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Brienne announces official date for E.G:
8 August
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Abbe Sieyes' pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?"
January 1789
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4000 pamphlets published in Pamphlet War between:
May 1788 - April 1789
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King welcomes deputies into the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles:
2 May 1789
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Official opening of Estates-General
5 May 1789
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Clergy vote to keep seperate verification:
7 May 1789
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The Reveillon Riots
27 April 1789
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Commons (previously 3E) declare themselves National Assembly of France after being joined by some liberal clergymen:
17 June 1789
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Clergy vote to join National Assembly:
19 June 1789
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N.A. arrives at meeting place to find doors locked, and a summons a Seance Royal:
20 June 1789
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The Tennis Court Oath
20 June 1789
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The Royal Session
23 June 1789
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Soldiers sent to stop N.A. crossed to support them on:
24 June 1789
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King consents to all the Estates meeting in common and voting by head:
27 June 1789
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Necker is dismissed (1789)
11 July 1789
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Camille Desmoulins urges the crowd at the Palais Royal to take up arms:
12 July 1789
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Fall of the Bastille
14 July 1789
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King comes to the Town Hall to agree to withdrawal of troops, and Bailly as mayor of Paris
15 July 1789
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King accepts a cockade from Bailly
17 July 1789
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Murders of Bertier de Sauvigny and Joseph Francois Foulon
23 July 1789
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