How King Louis XVI of France lost his head because of his inability to accept the idea of limited monarchy in France.

1. Off with his Head
The Capture, Trial, & Death of
Louis XVI

2. New start
•Rioters also broke into a
prison in Paris to free those
prisoners who had been
wrongly put there.

3. New start
• The is called the Storming
of the Bastille and it
happened on July
14, 1789, which served as the
official start of the revolution
and is France’s independence

4. New start
• This event gave the National
Assembly the opportunity to
show the world just how
serious they were.

5. New start
• They adopted a statement of
revolutionary ideals called
“The Declaration of the Rights
of Man,” which was greatly
influenced by the
Enlightenment thoughts of
Rousseau and Voltaire.

6. New start
• This document also had its
foundations in the
Enlightenment and the United
States’ Declaration of
Independence.

7. Old boss
• With everything that
was going on in his
country, King Louis XVI
took his family and
attempted to run away
to the Netherlands.

8. Old boss
• They nearly made it, until a
postmaster recognized
Louis from his picture on
the paper money of France.
• He and his family were
returned to Paris under
guard.

9. A leader
•As the leaders of the
revolution fought with
themselves for power,
mostly from a group called
the Jacobins, the revolution
itself headed down a dark
path.

10. A leader
•One of the best known
leaders of the French
Revolution was
Robespierre.

11. A leader
•He was placed in charge of
the Committee of Public
Safety, which had been set
up to rule France.

12. A leader
• The democratic constitution
that had been put in place by
the National Assembly carried
no weight with
Robespierre, who arrested and
put anyone to death that he
pleased.

13. A leader
•This included Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette, who
became victims of the
guillotine in
January, 1793, and
thousands of others.

14. A leader
•This Reign of Terror that
swept through France did
not even spare Robespierre
himself, as he was executed
at the guillotine.