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The Great Fear
-Worst famine in memory
-Hungry impoverished peasent feared that nobles at estates general were seeking greater privileges
-Various attacks throughout the country mainly aimed on the nobles
-Rumors of a aristocratic conspiracy which was to take over the third estate caused for them to take action -
Paris And The King
-National assembly abolished all feudal rights and privileges and ended serfdom
-The assembly could'nt solve the hungetr crisis without the monarch
-Crowds of women unite and march on versialles in a riot -
Estates General
-Louis XIV only called the estates general together only when his government was in a serious crisis
-Was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates General
-the Estates-General sat for several weeks in May and June 1789 -
The Fall Of The Bastille
-Mobs raid and attack prisons
-A rioting mob grows after the price of bread hightens
-King sends mercenaries to fight the mob
-The mob never met the mercenaries
-The mob attacked the bastille a giant prison -
Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And The Citizen
-Citizens now have rights that the government cannot overlook
-Citizenz now have freedom of thought, speech, religion, and property
-Brand new system with a new constitution
-no nobility
-Government buys all church property
-King tries leaving country again after democracy is declared -
A Crisis
-All the money by Louis XIV and his succesors came mostly from taxing and exploiting the lower class
-Led by philosophes
-Many French Soldiers and officers had taken part in the American Revolution -
Spirit Of Revolution Grows
-After 6 weeks of progress the third estates broke with the other estates
-People in France sensed that great things were happening and quickly caught the revolution spirit
