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Roits in Paris because of low wages and short food supplies ending in 25 deaths by troops
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The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
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This date was when the Estates-General, a group of represenatives from every social class, met since 1614. They disscused the problems that France was dealing with, because of the King.
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a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob.
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Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court (salle du jeu de paume). There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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his wife Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-93), and their children attempted to escape from Paris on the night of 20-21 June 1791. They made it to the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne, where they were arrested and returned to Paris.
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King Louis XVI is traied and excuted by gulliotine. The next day Queen Marie Antoinette is excuted without a proper trail.
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Napoleon comes back to France after this conquest in Egypt.
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Napoleon Bonaparte took power in France on November 9th/10th 1799. The coup of 18/19 Brumaire in the Year VIII of the republican calendar is generally taken to mark the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of Napoleon Bonaparte's dictatorship.
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Napoloen is appointed leadership over France under the Consulate. This is when the French Revoultion considered to be over.