The Four Phases Of The French Revolution

The system of tribunals in France was a fair system, but this system developed mainly because the National Assembly had failed, which created one of the biggest parts of the Reign of Terror, there were also four phases throughout the Revolution that lead to these events. The French Revolution began in 1789 as an attempt to create a new government in France. Before this big Revolution, the people of France were starving, spending 80% of their income on bread. Due to this people were angry, hungry, and wanted justice. Therefore, the peasants had attacked the nobles. Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI had ruled over France for 39 years until the decline; the French Revolution. The sans-culottes and peasants, who were mainly involved in the start of the Revolution, had been a part of phase one: The National Assembly. This was when the Paris Commune was created, which replaced the government in the city. This is where the National Assembly votes for an exemption of taxes and a Declaration of The Rights of Man was formed as well. Soon, the National Assembly started to fail as women protested in Versailles and demanded that Louis and his family come with them to Paris and they wanted more change.

This formation was considered phase two, the Radical phase. The new assembly created was the National Convention which included the system of tribunals. This assembly was led by Jacobins and they put Louis XVI on trial and was convicted just by one vote. He was executed through the guillotine (similarly related to source E1), which basically started The Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror had been created by Robespierre and the guillotine became a symbol of the horrors in the Revolution. During the Reign of Terror, the guillotine played a big part, 40,000 people were put to death with guillotine as they most likely opposed the