1789 CE: The Bastille in Paris is stormed.

1789 CE: The Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother, flees Versailles with other royalists after the Storming of the Bastille, becoming the first wave of emigres to flee the French Revolution.

1789 CE: The Great Fear sweeps across the French countryside, as peasants attack the feudal estates of the nobility.

1789 CE: Fear and paranoia drive Paris mobs to murder royal minister Joseph Foullon and his son-in-law, Berthier de Sauvignay.