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Louis XVI summond the Estates general to meet at Versailles
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many revolts, the National Assembly takes over womens march many important events happen.
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The french revloutaries stormed and took the bastille
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Delegates deadlocked over the issue of voting.
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the king of prussia and the emperor of austria- marie antoinettes brother made a declaration of pilnitz the two rulers threatend to intervine but it was mostly a bluff but the revolutionaries took it seirously and they prepared for war.
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San-culottes or with breeches were working class men and women who took it more radically they demanded for a republic or a goverment that had to vote for elected representives. And jocobsins were mostly middle class lawyers or intellectails they used press to spread the republican cause.
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Parisians stormed thr royal palace of the tuiles and slaughterd the royal gaurds.
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a group of parisians took the rpyal palace and killed all french royal gaurds. a month later citizens attack prisons that held nobles and priests acused of political offences about 1,22 prisoners were killed.
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Prussian armys advance through raw french recruits, roualist officers were deserting the french army.
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on a foggy january moring louis mounted a scoffolding and started his speech before he was done talking the sound of drums drownd out his words a few moments later he was exucuted the executiner held up his head to the crowd. in october marie antoinette was exucuted the press celebrated however she showed great dignity as she whent to her death.
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revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials. spectaters greeted death sentences with cries of "hail the republic!" or "Death to traitors"
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the constitution of 1795 set up fiveman directory and a two house legislature elected by male citizens of property.
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in the election of 1797 supporters of constocial monarchy won big time as chaos threatend politicians turned to napoleon.
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france spreads nationalism through eropue