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The Palace at Versaille was bad for the French people because, Louis spends 100 million to build the palace of spent to much money the people did not have any food.
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On May 16, 1770, at the age of fifteen, King Louis XIV married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia.
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Louis calls first meeting of Estates-General in 175 years. He needed more tax money, he was broke. He needed more money to pay off his debt.
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he Tennis Court Oath was a result of the growing discontent of the Third Estate in France in the face of King Louis XVI's desire to hold onto the country's history of absolute government. The deputies of the Third Estate were coming together for a meeting to discuss the reforms proposed by Necker, the Prime Minister. These reforms called for the meeting of all the Estates together, and to hold a vote by head instead of by estate.
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The peasants stormed the Bastille after hearing rumors that the king was sending the army to kill pesants and burn their crops. They stromed the Bastille to arm themselves and tear it down. It was an enormous symbolic act agains the ancien regime and it inspired revolutionaries such as the Jacobins.
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Guaranteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion, & justice. The French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U.S. Declaration of Independence
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French Revolution Execution. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body.
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By the time that Louis-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette were married, the people of France generally regarded the Austrian. On October 16th 1793 Queen Marie Antoinette was excuted. alliance with dislike, and Marie-Antoinette was seen as an unwelcome foreigner.
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On August 2, 1776 the Declaration of Independence is written and the colonists win American Revolution in 1781
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July 28, 1794, Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution. By the way of being accused of being trator to France by plotting with Austria then got executed.
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He wants everyone to be treated the same way. This including the same rights. The same loyality, The same respect. He believes that noone should be put above anyone else no matter what the situation. Equality is key he believes.
