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France was considered the most advanced country of Europe. It was praised amongst the europeans. However it was completely the opposite, France was actually not very stable because of bad harvests, high prices, and disturbing questions raised by enlightenment thinkers.
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Louis was not really the best king, he enjoyed doing many of his hobbies and spent most of the countries money in building his castle.
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Marie was a french gambler who did not like Louis and had a unorthodox way of dressing back in the day.
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The old Regime was a system that divided people in France into three large social classes or estates. First estate was owned by the Catholic Church. The second estate was owned by the Rich and nobles. The third estate which made up 97% of France was made up of the poorest people in France.
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End of absolute monarchy and beginning of representative government.
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When the people from the Third Estate tried to beg for a new constitution, King Louis treated them with brute force and killed most of the citizens there.
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Feudal privileges were wiped from the first and second estates making the nobles and the church equal.
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National Assembly completed the new constitution, Louis approved. This created a limited constitutional monarchy. And it also created the Legislative Assembly
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Members of the National convention revolted against Robespierre wanting him to be executed or sent to prison.
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France's army grew astoundingly, by 1794 the army had over 800,000 members including men and women.
