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Henry IV implemented this law allowing total religious toleration.
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Louis XIV spent over $100 million to begin building Versailles.
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Louis XIV abolished the Edict of Nantes
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Louis XVI called the Estates-General to meet. The nobles agreed to pay taxes to get the country out of bankruptcy from Louis XIV's reign only if they could get a constitution.
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The Third Estate declared themseleves the National Assembly and signed the Tennis Court Oath.
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The peasants stormed the Bastille in attempt to get weapons and march to Versailles. This is the mark of the beginning of the French Revolution.
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The National Assembly ended feudalism in all of France. Major mile stone for the freedom of the French people.
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The National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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After attempting to flee France with his family, Louis XVI was caught and sentenced to the Guillotine.
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September through July of 1793, the court sentanced 20,000 to 40,000 people to death.
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The National Convetion arrested Robespierre and beheaded him the day after.
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The Directory fell and ended the French Revolution.
