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Louis XVI's government going poor, and a time with poor harvests.
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Paris stormed Bastille, a hated prison that equaled/represented autocratic rule.
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The great fear began, a time of the french revolution when the peasants feared the nobles.
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The National assembly adopts the declaration of the rights of man and citizen.
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Peasants storm Versailles and demand King Louis XVI and the queen.
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First counter-revolutionary assembly at Jales
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Created Radicals, moderates, and conservatives.
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Assembly declares King inviolable and restores his prerogatives.
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The National assembly dispands, creates legislator, and now the king has no law.
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Revolution Leaders turn on each other.
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Jacobin Insurrection, again thwarted by gestures by the King, but Jacobins continue to defy the Assembly
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Trial of the king begins
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King Louis XVI was executed...
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Expulsion of the Girondists (the party of compromise) from all offices, the Commune of Paris becomes the centre of power
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Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator
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Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention.
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot, The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon
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Napoleon named as Emperor.
