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From 1780 they tried to stop the economic crisis, the king summoned a assembly to convince the privileged but they refused (revolt of the privileged) due to the worsening of the situation and the declaration of bankruptcy, the king only had to summon the states general, each estate drew up complaint notebooks. In the spring of 1789 the states general met at Versailles.
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The privileged pretended that they voted by estate, the majority was left to the privileged, the third State defended the vote per person, which gave them the majority.
The privileged tried to expel them.
Thus the third state was constituted in the National Assembly, later must be the constituent Assembly an they swore that they would remain together in the ball game room until a constitution was written.
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The constituent assembly aimed to dismantle the old regime and write a constitution. To end this, the decree of abolition of feudal rights was approved (elimination of tithe and the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen was also drafted (property, equality and freedom were guaranteed). In September 1791, the constitution that recognized a parliamentary monarchy, the division of powers, census suffrage was approved.
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The French Revolution in its most radical and popular phase. The legislative assembly was replaced by the national convention, which had two groups, the girondins representing the upper bourgeoisie and the Jacobins representing the middle bourgeoisie. In 1793 the Jacobins took over the power to establish a committee of public salvation, in wich the can eyected and judge anyone without evidence.
More than 50,000 people were guillotined including Louis XVI. -
Little by little, Robespierre lost his support. When he tried a new series of arrests, there was the coup d'état on 9 Thermidor, after which he was tried and executed.
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After the execution of Robespierre and other Jacobin elements, the revolution entered a moderate phase in 1795 the constitution of the year III was drafted, in which national sovereignty and the separation of powers were recognized.
The formula of the directory was created, the executive power was in the hands of 5 directors.
Napoleon Bonaparte, became the arbiter of politics, until November 18, 1799. Supported by the gentry, he decided to end the system through a coup.
