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The Estates General marched into the hall at Versailles. Louis XVI instructed the delegates to follow an old custom of meeting separately and voting as one body.
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This event was a symbol of royal oppression the crowd looted the famed armory for any weapons they could scavenge,then they brutally destroyed it.
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Feudalism was gone because the assembly thought that they could stop violence through mass reforms. this canceled feudal dues and services for the peasents the old system was gone.
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The assembly on this date issued a important civil constitution of the clergy stating that people in parishes or dioceses would elect their own clergy.
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The former King and his family got fed up with being "prisoners" of the capital city and made a valiant attempt at escape they disgused themselves they were close to the border of Austria when King Louis XVI was recognized he and his family were captured and sent back to Paris .
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This Constitution limited the powers of the King he had no decision the whole National Assembly was dissolved
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The Legislative assembly voted to declare war on Austria they had hoped that the former country Prussia and Germany out of the war but they failed as those two and other powerhouse European Monarchies came to assist Austria.
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It happened when Ready Parsians marched up to Tuileries Palace the Paris home for the royal family
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The National Convention created new calendar naming September 22nd the date of the new republics creation the calender did not survive.
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All of Europe found the execution of the former King quite shocking it was ridiculous. Even peple in the United States found it very disturbing.
