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The political crisis of 1789 coincided with the worst famine in memory.
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People with jobs had to spend as much as 80 percent if their income on bread.
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A more radical group, the paris commune, replaced the royalist government of the city.
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The constitution of the 1791 established a new government.
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In April 1792, the war of words between French revolutionsries and Euorpean monarchs moved onto the battlefield.
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On January 21, 1793 King Louis XVI of france was executied by order of the national convention.
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Marie Antoniette was also executied in October later that same year.