IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 

The future king, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette marry

Joseph Bologne creates his first musical composition

Riots sweep across France during the Flour War

France officially joins the American Revolutionary War to fight Great Britain

The first hot air balloon takes flight above Versailles

The French Revolution begins

Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

Toussaint Louverture
leads a revolt during the Haitian Revolution

France abolishes the monarchy and creates a republic

The French king is executed

The Reign of Terror

Slavery is outlawed in the French colonies

Nicolas-Jacques Conté invents the modern pencil

Napoleon Bonaparte becomes
the first consul of France

Slavery is reinstated in the French colonies

Haiti declares independence from France