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Bread Riot
Attacks on bakeries, graineries etc. Rumored that bakeries were keeping breads.
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Estates- General
first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General whether they should vote by estate, giving the first two estates an advantage, which was the king's choice, or vote all together, giving the Third Estate the advantage.
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Storming of the Bastille
Louis XVI uses force to put down the results of the thrid estate. Angry french citizens marched to paris and took siege of a prison, the Bastillie to steal weapons. Became the symbol of the frencho revoultuion.
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March on Versailles
an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets. they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles.
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Reign of Terror
a period of violence that occured for one year and one month after the french revoulution had begun. two major political groups were fighting in france
