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King Louis XVI pursued pleasure before business and ran up Frances debt
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The Estates General convened in May 1789
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More than 800 parasians assembled outside the bastile which is a prison used for political and other prisoners. They wanted guns, The commander refused to open the gates and fired on the crowd. They finally broke through and killed the commander and five others.
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The National Assembly issued the decleration of the rights of man in late August 1789.
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The women marched thirteen miles from Parus to Versailles in pouring rain.
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The newly elected legislative assembly took office. It survived less than one year.
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French revelutionaries and european monarchys's war of words went to the battlefield.
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A crowd of parisians stormed the royal palace of tuilleries and killed the kings guards. The royal family fled to the the legislative assembly escaping before the mob arrived.
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King Louis XVI was executed
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Marie Antoinette was executed.
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Maxamilien Robespierre was arrested
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Robespierre is killed
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PictureFrench Moderates set up another constitution the third since 1789.
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PictureThe ten year revolution had dramatically changed France.
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