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They besieged the palace and forced King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to return with them to Paris
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granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population
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They were immediately divided over a fundamental issue: should they vote by head, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third
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the men of the National Assembly swore an oath never to stop meeting until a constitution had been established
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the attackers captured the prison and released the seven prisoners held there.
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Louis XVI died at the guillotine on 21 January 1793.