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During the French Revolution the citizens of France fought for their independence.
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The country was running out of the main food source, bread, due to unsuccessful growing seasons. The cost of bread and grain went up to equal a month's wages and the king didn't do anything to solve the problem.
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The country of France was in debt from wars and the royal family kept adding more to it. Source: Notes
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When the representatives of the third estate went to meet in a room at Versailles, the found it locked so that they could not meet. They went down to a tennis court and swore to fight for rights until they got them.
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TheNational Assembly was a group of average citizens who wanted to properly represent the 3rd estate. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(French_Revolution)
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The citizens stormed the Bastille, killing the guards and raiding it of weapons and gunpowder to fight against the king's army. After, the tore it down by hand. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
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The Decleration of the Rights of Man was a document that outlined what rights and freedoms the citzens should have. Source: Notes
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The women of Paris gathered into a big crowd and marched to Versailles, capturing the king and queen, and taking all the food in the palace. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_March_on_Versailles
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Women in France wrote a six-page long petition to the National Assembly asking for equal right. They were ignored.
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King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antionette, and their children attempted to escape from Paris to the Austrian border, but were captured at a border town and brought back to Paris. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes
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In an effort to remove all religon from the year, a new calendar was invented during the revolution.
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King Louis XVI was executed, which brought France to a new form of government. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI
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The people of France attackd the palace where the king and queen were staying in France.
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This was the start of The Reign Of Terror, which was when countless people were guillotined for suspicions against the Revolution. Many were innocent. Source: Notes
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A few months after the death of her husband, Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine.
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The Reign Of Terror ended with the execution of Robespierre, the person ordering all the exececutions. Source: Notes
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Afraid of being executed, the people of France took Maximillien to the guillotine.
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The French Revolution ended the monarchy in Europe. It also put an end to the estates in France. Source: http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/french-revolution-effects-revolution.html
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Napoleon Bonaparte soon took control of France, Becoming the dictator.
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