14 juill. 1789 - the arguments of the Estates General spilled into the streets of Paris, mobs of poor Parisians stormed the Bastille

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The Bastille, a prison and armory, was an important symbol of the king’s power.
- With the National Assembly determined to write a constitution and the common people controlling the streets of Paris change was inevitable.
- The National Assembly drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man but Louis XVI continued to resist change.

by October, food shortages provoked the women of Paris to march on the King’s palace of Versailles to demand that Louis and his family return to Paris to help the people.
- Louis complied and for the next two years, France was reshaped into a constitutional monarchy.

As the French Revolution became increasingly radical, neighboring kings began to worry that the revolution might spread.
- Threats from Prussia and Austria provoked war which embolden French nationalism and drove the Revolution even more radical.
- A new constitution abolished the nobility and confiscated Church lands.

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