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The balance of power between the different estates degan to mecome uneven.
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The national assembly was created by the third estate inorder to vot as a nation instead of as estates.
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First stages of the revolution created by the national assembly.
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Insurgents attacked the Bastille inorder to steal large weapons and amunition. Bastille was also the symbol of royal power.
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The french peoples begin workin twards a constitution that would liberate them from royalist control.
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As most of the Assembly still favoured a constitutional monarchy so the various groups reached a compromise which left Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead.
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The king went against his word and began attacking the national assembly.
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Inorder to protect the rights of the people a vote for the exicution of the king was held and fell in favor of his death.
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The executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic.
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The politics of the period inevitably drove France towards war with Austria and its allies.
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The purging of the corrupt polititans throught the use of the guillotine.