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In May of 1789, King Louis XVI hesitantly ordered the Estates-General with the aim of solving the financial meltdown of the monarchy. The Estates-General represented three classes: the nobles, priests and the majority of the public, and the Third Estate.
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An angry mob stormed on the Bastille, a medieval castle in eastern Paris. It was seen by angry, unskilled, and hungry Frenchmen as a place for their anger and frustration to be combusted. King Louis XVI decided to withdraw the royal troops from the French capital after learned about the fall of the Bastille
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In their Tuileries Palace in Paris, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette felt like captives. Hoping to be made permanent as rulers, they decided to leave France and hideaway in Austria. Before being identified and forced to go back, they did manage to get within a few miles from the border. I feel like, For the National Assembly, the incident was catastrophic. Then they had to put up with an emperor who was controversial with the folks and is against the constitution.
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About 20,000 people attacked the Palace of the Tuileries. The King and Queen had escaped from the Palace and positioned themself under the Legislative Assembly's security. The Assembly, suspecting further violence, put them under detainment.
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France declared war on Austria on April 20, 1792. The royalists wanted war because they thought the new government would be easily overthrown by foreign armies. It would join the nation and distributed the concepts of the Revolution to the rest of Europe, the communists thought.
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After Louis was arrested, The Legislative Assembly disbanded and replaced itself with the National Convention, a new government organization. On September 21, 1792, the other's first legislation was to proclaim France as a constitution. Louis XVI was indicted for treachery and the vote was consistent at the final moment of his trial. He was decapitated in the streets of Paris in January 1793.
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The National Convention established a new constitution for France after Robespierre, which was taken in 1795. The Directory, composed of an Executive Committee of 5 members, was the leader of the new government. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, a productive army leader, returned from a military mission in Egypt and forced to resign the List.
