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Caused by low wages and food shortages, lead to about 25 deaths by troops in Paris.
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In effect proclaiming absolute monarch the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative goverment.
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Third Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses, deciding on a declarative vow, not to stop meeting until the constitution has been established
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Louis XVI forced to return to Paris
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The Legislative Assembly responded by declaring war in April 1792.
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Former king walked with calm dignity up the steps of the scaffold to be beheaded by a machine called the Guillotine.
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Marie Antoinette was executed and beheaded for incest with her son.
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Radical phase of the French Revolution, Robespierre went to the guillotine.