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The French Revolution
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Cause Of The French Revolution
One cause of the French Revolution is the poor were all compounded by a great scarcify of food in the 1780s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_French_Revolution
.Another one is that they had bad harvests and had prior to the revolution , france had severe droughts this results to food storages, prices whent up for the poor.
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National assembly created
. !st and 2nd estate went together and had all the power and that ment the third estate was out so they started meeting at the tennis court.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(French_Revolution
The 1st and 2nd estate outvoted the 3rd estate the 3rd etate decided to form their own parliment called the National assembly and it would turly reprent the french people.
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Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was an oath that the third estate would keep meeting until the D.R.M was completed.
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The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king.
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Attacking The Bastille
Thousands of parisias attack the fort and successfully get the gun powder .The city of paris was now in the hands of the revolutonaries.
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Bastille, a prison that was a symbol of the King's absolute and arbitrary power. So they decided to attack it.
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Declaration Rights Of Men
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
The national assembly was forced to meet at a near by tennis court. The plan was to create a document with rights the french people should have.
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The women who wants rights
The crowd destroyed the palace and in a dramatic and violent confrontation they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_March_on_Versailles
All the food at Versailles and the king/queen were brought to paris. King Louis the 16th would never see versailles again.
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The second estate
The second estate held the highest positions at court, in the church, and in government. Nobles had many privileges, and we as good as exempt from paying taxes. They had the ability to collect taxes from the peasants on their land, including old feudal taxes that should have been irrelevant in the day, but were collected so the noble could live where ever.thefrenchrev.wordpress.com/tag/second-estate
The second estate was about 2% of the the population.
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Third estate
This class thrived in response to changes to France’s economy throughout the 1700s; as the nature of production and commerce.
alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/third-estate/
This dramatic inequality in voting led to the Third Estate demanding more rights in 1789 and led to the creation of a new National Assembly to better represent them. In turn, they also effectively started the French Revolution.
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King and family escape
Their escape only led them as far as the small town of Varennes, where they were arrested after having been recognized at their previous stop in Sainte-Menehould.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes
One night the king and his family get in their royal carriage and using the cover of darknessvthey tried th head for austria. They made it right to the austrian border, but were spotted and captured and brought back to paris.
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The death of the ungrateful king
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-louis-xvi-executed
His execution made him the first victim of the Reign of Terror. His wife Marie Antoinette was guillotined on 16 October, the same year.
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The terror
When the war started the French army was losing and the Austrian/Prussian army got to within 30 miles or so of Paris. Great Britain put a naval blockade on France's ports.
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Was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
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The Death of Marie Antoinette
Eight months after her husband's execution, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
In the middle of October, the queen—again without warning—was summoned before the Tribunal to be tried, no time being given to her to prepare any defense, while her enemies had craftily made all their plans to kill her.
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The death of Louis XVll
Louis was abused often, but the boy made no complaint to Barras of his ill-treatments, possibly because he feared to do so.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVII_of_France
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Results of the revolution
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars tore down the ancient structure of Europe, hastened the advent of nationalism, and inaugurated the era of modern, total warfare.
www.infoplease.com › ... › History › Modern Europe › French History
France went through several governments and also France won the was vs England /Prussia/Austria so the revolution wasn't crushed.
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Napolean Bonaparte leads millions
Napolean leads his million men army and they take over most of Europe including.
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He took power in a coup d'état in 1799 and installed himself as First Consul.
www.history.com/topics/napoleon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
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Napolean death
He spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena in 1815
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
In 1821 he died and and that was the end of no more absolute monarchy
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