Key Events of the French Revolution

By Kay Em
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    France's financial troubles intensify

    • High costs of bread put strain on the Thrid Estate, most of whom can't afford to buy bread anymore
    • Bread riots break out across France

  • Meeting of Estates General

    • All three estates were called to meet together in the first meeting of the Estates General in over one hundred years.
    • The Third Estate could, at last, have some political influence.
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    French Revolution