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french revolution
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King Louis XVI calls the Estates-Genereal
The apparent intent of the King and of Barentin was for everyone to get directly to the matter of taxes. -
Storming of the Bastille
A huge, bloodthirsty mob marched to the Bastille, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI. -
"Rights of Man" Approved by the french national assembly
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, ect. -
threats from abraud
The failed escape of Louis XVI brought further hostile rumblings from abroad. In August 1791 the king of Prussia and the emporer of Austria issued the Declaration of Pilnitz. In the document the two monarchs threatened to intervene to protect the French Monarch. -
french monarchy abolished
In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. -
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reign of terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred for one year and one month after the onset of the French Revolution -
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french civil war
