Long Term Effects: The Enlightenment let to intellectual movements in the 17th and 18th century, influencing people to use reason and individualism rather than tradition. The National state was unified and it's power increased, this led to the French feeling nationalism in France. The democratic government then flourished and the middle class energed. These were all long term effects of the French Revolution. 
Short Term Effects: During the French Revolution the monarchy was immediately pushed out of power, which was a major short term effect in France at the time. The Reign of Terror was another short term effect that was full of repression, death and suffering. Lastly, the ruling classes were placed in a position of fear which was another main effect, which helped the emergence of the middle classes. 

Spark Causes: Famine, riots, the growing national debt in taxes, rise of enlightenment ideals, royal absolutism and semi-feudal system for the nobles were the spark causes that led to the French Revolution.  People were starving to death and the government refused to help them. Frances debt in taxes grew almost too large to handle and the rise of enlightenment ideas changed and influenced people's way of thinking. 

 

 

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Parisian Riots on July 14th:

As demonstrations spread across Paris on the morning of 14 July, Pierre–Victor Besenval, commander of the royal soldiers stationed in the capital, contemplated ordering his men to suppress the protests. However, as reports poured in from across the city, he realized that the situation was moving beyond his control. As he describes below, his primary concern was to refrain from taking any action that could lead to widespread and unnecessary violence.

On the eve of the fourteenth of July, Besenval, who is responsible for public order, is embarrassed.

. . . The insurrection of the 12th assumed an alarming aspect. Fearing that the different cavalry posts detailed to maintain order in the faubourgs might be insufficient or that under provocation they might infringe the express orders they had received, I sent them word to proceed to Place Louis XV (Place de la Concorde). A strong detachment of Swiss Guards with four pieces of Artillery was already in the Champs-Elysées. . . .

 

 

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The Tennis Court Oath Part of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: The French Revolution Exhibit

The National Assembly, considering that it has been summoned to establish the constitution of the kingdom, to effect the regeneration of the public order, and to maintain the true principles of monarchy; that nothing can prevent it from continuing its deliberations in whatever place it may be forced to establish itself; and, finally, that wheresoever its members are assembled, there is the National Assembly;

Decrees that all members of this Assembly shall immediately take a solemn oath not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and consolidated upon firm foundations; and that, the said oath taken, all members and each one of them individually shall ratify this steadfast resolution by signature.