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The Estates-General met at Versailles on May 5, 1789. They were immediately divided over a fundamental issue, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third.
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They didn't go to their regular meeting because of King Louis XVI and met instead at a nearby indoor tennis court. They promised themselves to create a written constitution for France; by 1791 they would have one.
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On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
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The women first marched to the Hôtel de Ville (type of city council) armed with kitchen knives and other simple weapons. Numbering over six thousand, the crowd seized muskets, swords, and other weapons. The women, now joined by some men as well, walked the distance from Paris to Versailles in about six hours.
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In 1792 he was tried by the revolutionaries. The monarchy was formally abolished, and “Year I” of the French Republic was declared. Louis XVI died at the guillotine.