• Abolition and replacement of the French monarchy with a radical democratic republic.

• Radical social change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.

• Armed conflicts with other European countries.

• Nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies, and cities lost their special privileges.

• The Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789).

• King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were arrested and later were beheaded.

• The Constitution of 1791 was signed by the king (they forced him to) and from then on France would function as a constitutional monarchy.

• Napoleon Bonaparte took the power.