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Bread prices
The price of berad doubled in 1979, causeing many people to starve -
Louis' problems
bankers refused to lend the government any more money, Louis faced serious problems -
Estates General
The second estate called for a meeting of the estates of general the meeting was held on May 5 1789 at Versailles -
Delegates breakdown
delegates locked out of the meeting room they broke down the door pledging to stay until they had drawn up the new constitution -
Bastile day
French national holiday similar to the Fourth of July -
bastille overpowered
on july 14 a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the bastille, a paris prison, the mob seized conrtol of the building -
Price of bread
thousands of parisian women rioted over the price of bread -
New Constitution
The national assembly completed the new constitution, the constitution created a limited constitutional monarchy.
