Jacques VERNIN D'AIGREPONT (1691-1754) - Seigneur d'Aigrepont, president treasurer de France and his son, Pierre VERNIN D'AIGREPONT (1732-1793?) - president treasurer de France, which at the time were two 40 year terms. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were King and Queen at the time of the Revolution. Both the king and the queen went to the guillotine along with Pierre's two sisters and many others. Marie Antoinette's son Louis XVII became the King of France at the death of Louis XVI. Charles (now King Louis XVII) was kept in a dark, filthy cell until he died of tuberculosis and starvation in 1795 at the age of 10. Marie Antoinette's daughter, Madame Royale, survived the revolution. She became the duchesse d'Angouleme and had great influence during the reigns of her uncles Louis XVIII and Charles X.

03-20-1779 Benjamin Franklin meets with King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, to confirm the French-American treaty. Van Doren, p. 595.

1783 Treaty of Versaille, recognizing the independence of the United States of America.

10-22-1784 Napoleon enters l'Ecole militaire royale de Paris in Paris, from 1784 - 1785.

1785 Napoleon becomes second lieutenant, at the age of 16.

05-05-1789 The French Estates-General meets at Versaille, the first such meeting since 1614.

06-17-1789 The Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General meets separately and declares itself to be a National Assembly. King Louis XVI closed their meeting place, so they repair to the tennis court at the Louvre (Jeu de Paume).

06-20-1789 Members of the National Assembly take oath not to disband until a constitution is established.

06-27-1789 Louis XVI legalizes the National Assembly, permitting all three estates to meet together and vote per capita.

07-14-1789 Parisian mob storms Bastille Castle, then functioning as a royal prison, hoping to find arms. The mob kills its governor, the Marquis de Launey, and releases its seven prisoners (none of whom are political prisoners).

08-04-1789 During the night, equality of rights throughout France is proclaimed.

08-14-1789 Nobles and clergy in the National Assembly, out of fear, renounce their privileges, thus ending feudalism in France. August, 1789 Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen.

10-05-1789 Parisian mob marches on Versailles. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are relocated to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, where they are confined.

06-20-1791 to 06-21-1791 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette attempt to flee in disguise from France, but are apprehended at Varennes, and are brought back to Paris.

___-1791 Louis XVI accepts a constitution.

10-01-1791 Legislative Assembly convenes.

1791 French National Assembly passes the Le Chapelier law, which prohibits economic associations, thus ending the guild system in France. (Trade monopolies for baking and butchery were reinstituted under government control, later under the Consulate). France enacts the Ordinance of 1791, establishing new infantry tactics for use by French armies.

04-20-1792 France declares war on Austria.

06-20-1792 An insurrection in Paris fails.

08-10-1792 Paris mob, inflamed partly by the writings of Jean Paul Marat, storms the Tuileries Palace and establishes a new city government. Robespierre is elected to the Commune of Paris.

09-02-1792 Mobs across France enter jails and kill hundreds of royalist sympathizers who had recently been arrested.

09-21-1792 National Convention meets for first time, abolishes the monarchy, establishes a republic, and tries King Louis XVI for treason. The King is convicted by a majority of one vote.

1792 Napoleon promoted to Captain.

01-21-1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are guillotined in Paris. The regicide causes the European monarchies to band together in the Brunswick Manifesto.