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France is broke because of all it’s wars, so Louis XVI’s finance minister calls nobles to get them to support a new tax plan.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_Notables#/media/File:Rouget_-_Assemblée_des_notables_à_Rouen_(4_novembre_1596).jpg)
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was a general panic that took place between 17 of July and 3 of August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and, fueled by rumors of an aristocrats' "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, both peasants and townspeople mobilized in many regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fear
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Sans-culottes women in Paris are mad about bead prices and Louis XVI’s detachment, so they march on Versailles so that they can take part in the Revolution too. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_March_on_Versailles)
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The document that declares what rights are natural, unalienable and sacred for all men, but it doesn’t do anything to help women or slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
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The National Assembly doesn’t like the church having power, so they use this opportunity to assert their authority over the clergy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Constitution_of_the_Clergy#/media/File:Je_jure_de_maintenir_la_constitution.jpg)
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France makes a new Constitution that makes the National Assembly become an official legislature (https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/legislative-assembly/)
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People aren’t happy with the Constitutional Monarchy Louis XVI is forced out of the palace and taken into custody, so France no longer is a monarchy and instead becomes a Republic without a King
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The National Convention votes to kill Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by guillotine for treason (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Louis_XVI)
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France is becoming too safe to be willing to submit itself to the Reign of Terror and Robespierre’s insane spree of executions, so it has a counterrevolution against the radical Jacobins (https://www.britannica.com/event/Thermidorian-Reaction)
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France needs power and string military so Robespierre makes France into a hyper-nationalistic military super power (https://www.britannica.com/event/Reign-of-Terror)
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The directory is losing power and many French citizens want a single leader again to restore a sense of order and national pride, so they decide this diminutive 30 year old war hero Napoleaon is the perfect candidate, who later become the emperor of France and takes over Europe (https://www.britannica.com/event/Coup-of-18-19-Brumaire)
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