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As economin crisis strikes France, Enlightenment Ideas spread throught the starving Third Estate. The Estate General calls for a meeting, but the Third Estate always loses 2 to 1. The peasants storm Bastille Prison, in search of weapons.
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The National Assembly creates a Bill of Rights.
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The women of France, angry at King Louis about the shortage of food, march toward Versaille in order to get King Louis and his wife to move to Paris so they could help sort out the economic crisis.
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King Louis XVI and his wife try to escape France as the crisis in France escalates. However, they are spotted in disguise and put under house arrest, but, Europe's other kings threatened France.
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With the guillotine, King Louis XVI is beheaded after trying to escape France. This caused other kings in Europe to become alarmed. To prevent the revolution from spreading, they attacked France.
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Robespierre takes control of France and becomes its leader. However, after a year of terror with huge amounts of beheading via the guillotine, Robespierre is beheaded himself. The more moderate Directory takes control.
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After Napolean Bonaparte defeats all of France's enemies after the Revolution, he declares himself an emperor with nearly unlimited power.
