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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
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the fall of the Bastille was a symbol of the abuse of the Monarchy.
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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King louis XVI of France and his family attempt to escape from Paris but fail to do so.They escaped only as far as the small town of Varennes, where they were arrested after having been recognized.
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France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
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the fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard. The King and his family remained unscathed, but he no longer had any authority. The crowd swept through Paris destroying all images of and references to the monarchy and the Assembly suspended the monarchy's powers.
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After the King was found guilty, they took a vote and sentenced him to death,The Guillotine beheaded him. For the first time in thousands of years The French people were not ruled by a Monarch.
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a term which is used to refer to an enactment passed on September 17, 1793 during the course of the French Revolution.
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the trial of Marie Antoinette Queen of France
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the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
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French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and he was executed the next day.
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Napoleon was in Paris when a large, angry Parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruling National Convention at the Tuileries Palace.Vicome Paul de Barras had been impressed by the military ability and asked nepoleon to defend the palace.
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five-man revolutionary government, is created
