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French Revolution
The king and queen of that time were badly spending the money they collected from taxes to have luxurious and extravagant things, the town was perishing. Disease and hunger were everywhere.
It was a revolution created by the French citizens, against the kings of that time (Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI), wich began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s.
the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), it was a statement of democratic principles. The document contained the Assembly’s commitment to replace the ancien régime with a system based on equal opportunity, freedom of speech, popular sovereignty and representative government.
The king Luis XVI and his predecessor , had let the country on the brink of bankruptcy.
A new state emerged, the third being thus, it was made up of non-aristocratic people, that is, they did not have much money, such as peasants or workers for the kings. They created the new state because they wanted equality between the aristocracy and the town.
Royalists and Jacobins protested the new regime but were swiftly silenced by the army, now led by a young and successful general named Napoleon Bonaparte. Royalists and Jacobins protested the new regime but were swiftly silenced by the army, now led by a young and successful general named Napoleon Bonaparte.
The National Assembly (known as the National Constituent Assembly during its work on a constitution) continued to meet at Versailles, fear and violence consumed the capital. Parisians grew panicked as rumors of an impending military coup began to circulate.
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