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Government (Estates General (First) (3 estates met in different chambers…

- - - - Abbe Sieyes- questions reason for third estate
        
        says nobility is useless and could be abolished
        
        3rd estate is only one that matters
        
        Third estate breaks away and create National Assembly (May 1789) (Second)
        
        August 1789
        
        serfdom abolished
        
        tithes abolished
        
        special privileges abolished
        
        ALL personal taxes abolished
        
        "feudalism abolished"
        
        Decleration of the Rights of Men and the Citizen
        
        men are born free and with equal rights
        
        natural rights- liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression
        
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        Leads to Olympe de Gouge's The Rights of Women
        
        asserts women's rights to divorce, control property in marriage, access to education, civil careers, public employment
        
        Mary Wollstonecraft- Vindication of the Rights of Women
        
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        September 1789
        
        plans for new govt
        
        king hesitates to accept changes due to decrease in his power
        
        emerges and count of Artois creates trouble
        
        Goes to other European nations and warns them
        
        October 1789
        
        women march on Versailles to let King Louis know bread prices had risen
        
        Louis XIV and NA move back to Paris
        
        Paris taken by radicals- Jacobins
        
        NA makes Constituent Assembly- work on constitution
        
        Constitute Assembly