The Four Periods Of The French Revolution

The Four Periods of the French Revolution The Revolution was divided into four parts: The General Estates, the Storming of Bastilles, The Reign of Terror, and The Consulate with Napoleon. The General Estates is when all the Estates of France met together to change how the whole society ran from political power. This was a beginning of the events to lead to the French Revolution. The Storming of Bastilles was the revolt of the Third Estate trying to gain gunpowder and weapons to start an uprising. They stormed a grand building of weapons named Bastilles and killed 6 guards and the commander in the process which was a direct hit to the King. Also they killed the governor of the Bastille, Delaunay. This was the beginning of the French Revolution. The Reign of Terror was a 12 month period of which two factions came to a mutual radicalization which the outcome was mass executions of the enemies of the Revolution. This began in 1793 in September and ended in July of the same year when the leaders of the Terror where themselves executed. This Reign took around 18,000 – 40,000 lives and only a month before being done it did 1,900 executions. The Consulate was the government developed by Napoleon when the Directory Government fell. Napoleon declared himself First Consul and the Napoleonic Empire began. (224)