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The french economy,although it had been expanding for 50 yers,suffered periodic crises.Bad harvests in 1787 and 1788 and a slowdown in manufacturing led to food shortages,rsing prices for food,and unemployment
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On the nmorning of 14,1789,a Parisian mob of some eight thousand men and women in search of weapons streamed toward the Bastille was also a state prision .
