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  Why did Louis XVI call the National Assembly?
 The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General.
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  The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General
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  King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting because they were demanding more power in the government because they made up 97% of the population in France
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  This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country
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  Fearing a royalist conspiracy, the Third Estate responded by gathering in a nearby tennis court
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  french citizens rise up and take over the bastille
 they free the prsioners and take the needed gunpoweder .
 they then tear it down , brick by brick
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