the Great Fear (jul 14, 1789 – aug 4, 1789)

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period of peasant revolts sweeping after the storming of bastille due to fear of aristocratic plots and the end of the revolution

destroying seignural contracts and attacking nobles and the manor houses

start of the emigration of the second estate

Reverses the whole situation — 3rd estate are in a dominant position, weakened 1st & 2nd

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