French Revolution
The French Revolution (1789-1795) was an uprising of the people, which suppressed and exploited felt, against the authority of the French king. But when the people once had taken over the power, exerted a terror that still many times worse than when the king was still for the said. Domestic terror finally went on in a war of France against the neighboring countries. Eventually got across Europe, to Russia, with the French aggression. The French Revolution is very similar to the Oktoberrevolutie 1917 in Russia.

The three Positions
In France, you had three "positions": the nobility (fighter pilots etc. ), clergy (the church), and the so-called Third Position, the bourgeoisie. That was still the influential bourgeoisie, because the "ordinary" people had nothing at all to tell. It was what the bourgeoisie, was pay taxes, whose nobility and clergy were exempted. In 1789 was the French treasury almost empty and the French king was in order council. The taxes than but increase again? The burghers morde already exists. And he called the States
When that was rejected, was the Third Position itself a kind of governance and vowed to go out only, if there was a new constitution. That is known as "the Oath on the except from". But the king had no sense at all in, and he sent the army to the meeting. That was the signal for a general revolt. The people stormed the county prison, the Bastille, where mainly political prisoners were imprisoned. That prison was the symbol of the repression by the frost. That was the beginning of the French Revolution, July 14, 1789, Quatorze de juillet) which commemorates (speak from katorz zwiejè) in French. That date is still celebrated annually in France (not commemorated), because they see the French Revolution as something very