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King Louis calls for the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years. The third estate was not happy with the formation of 3 separate chambers because the first and second estate would always agree with each other and the third estate would lose.
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When the third estate was locked out of the Estates-General, they gathered on a tennis court and took an oath that said "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"
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A mob of people storm the prison to gain gunpoweder for their guns. They hacked guards to death and tore down the prison.
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A group led by women marched from Paris to Versailles because of the high prices of food, more specifically bread.
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Louis was officially arrested on august 13th, on september 21st the national assembally said France was a republic and abolished the monarchy. Louis was found guilty on his trial and was beheaded on january 21st, 1793
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Without any military to protect the jails, the people of Paris stormed the prisons and killed all of the upper class people in them.
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The reign of terror was a stretch in the French Revolution when people were beheaded if they spoke ill of the revolution or held anything against what people are doing.
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Maximilien Robespierre was beheaded on 28th of July without trial. He was the main voice of the revolutionaries.