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at the age of fifteen king louis married the fourteen-year-old austrian Maria Antoinette
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louis XVI succeeded to the throne in 1774 he was not yet 20 years old at the time.
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established during the French Revolution in 1789
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they made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court located in the Saint louis district of versailles. they pledged to meet every day till the declaration of the rights of man were finished.
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the people of paris stormed the bastille in need of gun powder for their muskets for the revolution
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defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates.
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prussia and austria team up on france to get the royal family
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the Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the royal family were harmed then french people would be harmed
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In November, proof of Louis XVI’s secret dealings with Mirabeau and of his counter revolutionary intrigues with the foreigners was found in a secret cupboard in the Tuileries
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the king is convicted of treason and is sent to the guillotine
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a young woman from caen, charlotte corday had an interview in his bathing room and once she was finished she stabbed him
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the amount of people killed during this period were numbers ranging from 16,000 to 40,000
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marie antoinette was also charged with treason
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robspierre was ruling to harshly for the people to live normal lives so the national assembly sent to kill him
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To inaugurate the new state religion robespierre declared that 20 prairial year II would be the first day of national celebration of the supreme being.
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napoleon comes back from egypt to check on france when they give him power
