French Revolution

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    1791

    Proclamation of the first constitution of France.
    The Royal Family tried to flee the country, but is covered and imprisoned.
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    1774.

    Louis XVI assumes the throne of France, alongside his wife, Marie Antoinette.
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    1788

    Popular pressure forces Louis XVI to summon the States General.
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    1787

    The agrarian, commercial, and financial crisis was total.
    They summon the Board of Nobles to study a solution.
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    1790

    The civil constitution of the Clergy is promulgated.
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    1789

    The Estates General fail.
    June 20: The Third Estate decided to abandon the meetings to form, separately, a National Assembly that vowed not to rest until it gave France a Constitution.
    July 14: The mob takes the Bastille.
    August 26: Procalmation of the rights of man and citizen.