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France's economy was falling and declined. This caused people such as merchants, factory owners and bankers of the third estate. This also caused crop failures and a really low amount of grain. This later on lead to starvation of many people.
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First meeting in 175 years. It was called by the second-estate in order to impose taxes on nobility because there was no money left.
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People voted to form the National Assembly. This caused absolute monarchy to collapse and now the beginning of the representative government.
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People broke into a tennis court because the third-estate was locked out of the meeting. They said they wouldn't leave until they had a new constitution. (Tennis Court Oath)
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People started to gather multiple weapons to defend themselves against their own government. This is when the storming of Bastille happened. Guards died and they hacked their way in.
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Here is where the Declaration of the rights of Man was developed. It was influenced by Thomas Jefferson, and stressed how the rights of men should be followed everywhere.
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A lot of Parisian women marched through Versailles and attacked the castle. At the end of the day, they made Paris be ruled by kings again.
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The Constitution was written in France, it was written after the collapse of the Absoloute Monarchy of the Ancien Regime.
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The Insurrection, here is where the French Monarchy fell after the storming of the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard.
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Here is the Execution of King Louis XVI. After the Insurrection in August, Louis was arrested in the Temple Prison with his family.
