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The estates composing of the clergy, nobility, and commoners, met at the Versailles. From all over France 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event, and the third estate were the greatest in number.
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It was an assembly to propose solutions to France's financial problems. Which ended when the third estate formed into a national assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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The political and financial situation in France had grown, forcing Louis XVI to call the national assembly.
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When they were locked out of their usual meeting hall, they went in search for a palace they could continue to meet in. There was a tennis court nearby, where they then took an oath.
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After being locked out the Meeting hall, the third estate took an oath at the tennis court and pledged themselves to create a written constitution for France.
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French citizens rise up and take over the Bastille. They free the prisoners and take the needed gunpowder. They then tear it down, Brick by Brick.
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It was established to help the foundation of the revolution, in hopes to end the monarchy, then later create a democracy in France.
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It was made as an attempt to reorganize the roman catholic church in France and make it accountable to the nation.
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Louis and his family were detained and brought back to Paris under guard , and eventually undermined the credibility of the king as a constitutional monarch.
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After being brought back to Paris, he was then tried by the revolutionaries. After the monarchy was abolished, "year I" of the French republic was declared, and Louis died at the guillotine.