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Under this system the people of France were divided into three large social classes.
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France's once prosperous economy was in decline.
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The price of bread went up and many people died of starvation.
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an assembly of representatives from all three estates having a meeting, the meeting that was the first in 175 years was held on this day
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They voted to establish the national assembly, in effect proclaiming the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government
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In a Paris prison there was a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed for Bastille.
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Everyone went in to a senseless panic, thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising of bread.
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He was the king of France from 1774 until his deposition in 1792.
