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The attack on the Bastille for gunpowder and ammunition in order to defend the National Assembly from a rumored attack against it.
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A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille.
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The statement that the National Assembly adopted the ideals that man should have equal access to public office based on talent, not status.
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A mob of Parisian women stormed the palace of Versailles demanding that Louis XVI and the royal family return to Paris to end the nation wide food shortage.
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A failed attempt by King Louis XVI to get out of France with his family to Austria.
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Rumors that that imprisoned aristocrats and priests were plotting with the allied invaders. As a result, angry crowds invaded the prisons of Paris and slaughtered the men and women they found.
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King Louis XVI was beheaded in order to remove threats that would hinder the development of the Republic.
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A period in which thousands of peasants and people who opposed the Republic were executed for "disloyalty".
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A coup d'etat was led by powerful military general Napoleon Bonaparte which toppled the Directory and led to Napoleon's seizure of power.
