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There were series of bad harvest which left millions of peasants starving.
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The cost of wars against England and the extravagance of the court had left France bankrupt.
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national assembly had little control over people,on 14july they captured bastille
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Prussia and Austria, afraid that revolution might break out among their own people, invaded France but was driven by the revolutionary armies
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Louis and his wife tried to escape but were captured brought back to Paris and were executed
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The rulers were beheaded