What kind of government did the National Assembly create after the monarchs were caught trying to escape?

Answer 1

The National Assembly created a constitutional monarchy which stripped Louis the Sixteenth of his power and reduced him into a figurehead.

Answer 2

Before the National Assembly, France used a legislative body system called the "Estates-General," They were made up of 3 estates (1st is Catholic Clergy, 2nd is the Nobility/Aristocrats, & 3rd was the rest of France's population).

In 1789, France was dealing with massive financial problems thanks to the Seven Year's War & its help with the American Revolution. Mix in the fact that France's population was rising, King Louis XVI called for a meeting of the Estates-General (which hadn't been called together in over 175 years at that point). King Louis XVI basically didn't take the Third Estate's demands seriously, so the Third Estate began to meet and draft a new Constitution (called the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen). Then King Louis XVI gave in to the Third Estate, resulting in creating the National Assembly. The public loved the fact that they would begin to be heard, but King Louis XVI went back on his promise and tried to disband it. In response to this, revolutionaries stormed the prison called Bastille to make their voices heard. The King backed off the National Assembly, and the First & Second Estates joined due to fear of the Third Estate's power.

King Louis XVI showed a poker face and claimed that he approved of the new Constitution, but Paris's women went to the King's home in Versailles to take him & his wife (Marie Antoinette) to Paris so that they could be carefully watched. Over the next two years, the National Assembly made huge changes to French society, which King Louis XVI faked approval of his now limited monarchal power. He & his wife fled Paris in 1791, only to be detained and returned to Paris.

This is when the French Revolution takes a bloody turn. A radical group known as the Jacobins think that the revolution hasn't gone far enough, so in 1792 they got rid of the monarchy officially and created a Republic, leading to the beheading of King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette by guillotine. They changed more than that, though: they created a whole new calendar beginning on September 22, 1792 (the day after they created the Republic), introduced a metric standard of currency, changed the National Anthem, changed their clothes to something more "revolutionary." The radical leader was named Maximilian Robespierre, and they began beheading any one person who is suspected of being a counter-revolutionary, which resulted in thousands of dead citizens. This period of increased guillotine fatalities is called the Reign of Terror. It went on for around a year, and after great opposition to Robespierre's reign of terror, he was also beheaded after his enemies had him arrested on July 27, 1794.

In 1795, they installed a new Constitution that was less radical than the Jacobin. They created an executive branch consisting of 5 men known as "The Directory." It lasted until 1799 until there was a coup (an "overthrow") by Napolean Bonaparte, where he ended up as Emporer in 1804. He implemented his Napoleanic Code in 1804, which made all male citizens equal before the law, meanwhile reforming the tax system to help the impoverished. However, he got rid of free speech, representative government, censored the press, put political opponents in jail, appointed people to the legislature himself, and didn't care whatsoever that he brought back the monarchy.

"I found the crown of France on the ground, and I picked it up with my sword" - Napolean Bonaparte