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Got personal plessure before taking care of business. Then got even more debt. So they hired Jacques Necker.
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Bad food harvest sent their prices through the roof.
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French clergy still got much wealth and privelege.
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50% of the taxes went to the debt they owed. Leaveing peasents hungry.
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Turned france into a constitutional monarchy.
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A rumor spread that the factory manager was going to cut pay even though the bread prices were high. Angry workers destroyed the owners home.
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The parisians went to the Bastillian demanding weapons. So broke in killed 5 guards and commander and relased prisoners. But not finding any weapons.
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Set up a limited monarchy instead of having an absolute monarch.
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A coach came north from paris. In it was a king dressed like a servant. The queen as a governess, with the royal children. But they were caught. The king was called names and a traitor.
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6,000 women march 13 miles in the pouring rain from paris to varsailles.
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Violence ended the monarchy.
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A group of Parisians went to the palace of the Tuileries and killed the guards. The royal family escaped before they could die.
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A convention was set up that that extreme than the body's earlier.
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1,200 prisoners were killed some just being the average criminal. this was part of the "September Massacres".
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Napoleon drove out the British forces from the French port.