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WORLD HISTORY InNo pg 28 - 38

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**Revolution 1789:**


 * Due to the national assembly, King Louis lost control of the Estates General.
 * Riots around Paris also showed that he had risked loosing control of the capital too
 * Louis ordered 20000 loyal troops to move into area around paris
 * The troops was feared by the people
 * They may have been sent to break up the national assembly.
 * July 12, Louis fired the finance minister -
 * Replaced with Necker, a hard-liner who opposed the 3rd estate.
 * People thought that the King was about to break down the national assembly
 * They gathered weapons to prepare for defending against the kings troops.
 * Crowds broke into weapon stores and stole thousands of guns
 * There were rumors about large amounts of gunpowder in bastille

**The Storming of Bastille:**
 * Parisians hated Bastille, because that was where all the prisoners from sealed letters were sent.
 * There were many stories of torture chambers about Bastilles
 * The fortress Bastilles was hated by all the people
 * They stormed into the fortress destroying everything, including the defenders.

**Images of the Bastille:**
 * One of the most important historical events in the French revolution.
 * A symbol of victory of ordinary people over their rulers.
 * There are many paintings of this event
 * people storming through the fortress
 * horrible conditions the prisoners were tortured
 * prisoners being helped escape the dungeons.
 * The people who had participated in the event said the paintings are inaccurate.
 * There were only a few captives
 * The diary of a man kept prisoner at bastille wrote a record of what he had eaten.

**The King Loses Control:**


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The King wanted to send his army to recapture bastille, however the war minister warned him that his soldiers may refuse to do so.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Louis had to give up control of Paris
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">ordered his soldiers back into their barracks
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Allowed the people to set up their own military force - the national guard
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3rd estate formed a new local government - the Paris commune
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Towns and cities all over france followed the example of Paris

**The Great Fear:**
 * Violence spread through to the country side
 * There were many people who went looking for jobs, or to beg looking for food near the country sides.
 * the farmers were afraid that their crops would be stolen, or destroyed by gangs of wanderers.
 * there were rumors of nobles paying wanderer gangs to destroy crops, and fear quickly spread through france
 * when a villager saw wanderers stealing food, he would ring the church bell to warn the next village.

**The Assembly Begins its Work:**
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The national assembly were afraid of the violent peasants.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">on 4th august, noble deputies announced that they would give up their feudal rights and dues.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By the next day, hunting rights, tithes, the corvée and the rights of the mill and over had been abolished.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">feudalism was gone
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">three weeks after the end of feudalism, the assembly made another important change in french society
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">it issued the "declaration of the rights of man and the citizen" - all men were equal in rights
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">people were free to speak and write freely, it changed the laws of arrest and imprisonment. it also banned torture.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The power of france, no longer belonged to just the king, but also to the people.

**The Women March to Versailles:**
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Louis did not like the new laws, and did not sign them.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">he sent another army to Versailles in early october to add to his body guards. this looked like it was going to break the national assembly by force
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When the news reached Paris, crowds of market women gathered in the streets, marching through the streets collecting weapons.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On October 5th, armed with knives guns and connons, the women marched to Versailles to protest
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the women, supported by national guardsmen complained about the high price of bread, and the amount of bodyguards in Versailles.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Louis did not want to leave for Paris, however changed his mind when two women smashed their way into the palace, killing two bodyguards and threatening to kill the queen.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On October the 6th, Louis, his wife and son went to Paris.

**The King and the Assembly**
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The deputies of national assembly followed the royal family to Paris.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Where they took over an old riding school as a meeting place.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The next 2 year new laws.



**The Reform of the Church:**
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some people felt that the church had too much power, land and money
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">People felt that many clergies lived unholy lives
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The national assembly started to overtake the churches powers
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Only half the people took the oath, the other half didn't
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">they split into two groups

**The Flight to Varennes:**
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Louis disliked the civil constitution. he sided with the priests who refused to take the oath. this made it look as if he opposed the revolution
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Angry crowds protested at the gates of Tuileries Palace
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Louis left Paris to get help from other leaders.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was extremely hard to escape france
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> the assembly was afraid that Louis might try to escape.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">21st June 1791 Louis and his family escaped disguised as temporarily unguarded door.