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King Louis XVI brought together the representatives of the 3 estates to take about the bad harvest and the costly war in order to raise taxes.
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The revolutionary government was lead by the 3rd estate during this time
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The king tries to run from France to Austria, but is caught in Varennes.
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The Tennis Court National assembly (made up of the 3rd estate that had been locked out of the estates general meeting) resolved not to disband until it had a written constitution.
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While it was storming, a Paris mob took over the Bastille prison, mainly for the mass amount of weapons stored in the prison.
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peasants attack noble manners
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The 2nd estate renounce the feudal right in the national assembly, and formed the Jacobin Club. The Jacobin's were a group of radical and ruthless democrats, who had started the ruin of terror with Robespierre, and pressed for the death of king Louis the XIV.
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The assembly issues the rights of man, which gave the French people rights such as the right to own land, freedom of speech and press, and no discrimination of religion.
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King Louis is brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris.
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the Constitutional government is lead by elected officials
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A Paris mob storms the royal palace and the legislative assembly government collapse . Minister of Justice, Danton purges thousands of presumed traitors (enemies of the state)
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France's new government abolishes its monarchy and declares itself a Republic
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In October, 1792 a revolutionary calendar was introduced with new days and month names, but the first day of the new calendar was on September 21st
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Elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite the constitution
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The National Convention(new gov.) condemns the king of treason and is sentenced to death by guillotine.
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The counter-revolutionary revolt in the Vendee region starts.
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The Committee of Public Safety with Robespierre starts the Reign of Terror.
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During the month of "Thermidor" Robespierre is guillotined and the Reign of terror ends.
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The churches reopen
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The new constitution is adopted and the government is turned into a Directory
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The new constitution has 2 houses, the Council of Ancients and the Concil of 500
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The new government remove the Royalist (loyal to the Monarchy) from the Directory,
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Napoleon has a government takeover and abolishes the Directory and establishes a Consulate government and ends the French Revolution
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Government adds price controls to the public, remove the saints names from the street names, and change hoe the government operates. (Fall)
