On 14 July, 1789, an agitated crowd of peasants attacked Bastille. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution. France saw a lot rebellions and changes in power after that. These can be divided into three parts.

• Constitutional Monarchy – After the storming of Bastille, The king of France at the time Louis XVI of the Bourbon dynasty had to accept the National Assembly and accepted that his powers from now on be checked by the constitution. On August 4, 1789, the assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations and taxes. The National Assembly completed the Constitutional draft in 1791 limiting the powers of the monarch. The National Assembly had the power to make the laws.

• Reign of Terror (1793-1794)- A political club, famously known as the Jacobin Club, stormed the Palace in year 1792. The motive was to completely abolish Monarchy. Their leader Maximillian Robespierre sentenced Louis XVI to death by guillotine along with his wife Mary Antoinette and took control himself. Robespierre believed in severe control. He abolished slavery, arrested clergymen, aristocrats and ex party members. Robespierre’s policies were so relentless, he himself was charged and then later guillotined.

• Arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte– After the fall of the Jacobin club, the wealthier middle class tried to seize power. A new constitution that allowed non propertied men to vote was introduced.  The new directory, however clashed with the legislative too often which paved way for military leader and dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte to take over France in 1804.

These series of Incidents led France be ascended by a  Military ruler which defied he ideas of the French Revolution