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France was considered the most advanced country of Europe because it had a large population and a prosperous foreign trade.
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The social and political system of France remained in place. People were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
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A meeting was held with the representatives of the three estates to approve of the new taxes to the nobility which was King Loui's solution since he had no money left.
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The delegates of the three estates voted to establish the National Assembly, in effect proclaiming the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government.
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A mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison. The fall of the Bastille became a great symbolic act of revolution to the French people.
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Noblemen made grand speech, declaring their love of liberty and equality.
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Thousands of Parisian women marched on Versailles rioting over the rising price of bread.
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Louis is warned that his family was in danger and the royal family tries to escape from France unsafe and left the country to the Austria Netherlands.
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The National Assembly completed the new constitution, which Louis approved without wanting to. This new constitution limited constitutional monarchy.
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About 20,000 men and women invaded the Tuileries, the palace where te royal family was staying because the Prussian commander threatened to destroy Paris if the revolutionaries harmed any member of the royal family.
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Louis XVI walked with calm dignity up the steps of the scaffold to be beheaded by a machine calles the guillotine.