MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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theywere infuriated and attacked the royal family
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theywere frightened by the Prussians and allowed the royal family to go to Austria
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theysigned a truce with Prussia and ended the war
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the supported the King and gave him absolute power again
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Detailed explanation-1: -The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy. The intended goal of the unsuccessful flight was to provide the king with greater freedom of action and personal security than was possible in Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1789, faced with a grave financial crisis, the king summoned a meeting of the Estates General at the palace. Later that year, ceding to popular pressure, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette left Versailles for Paris. Both died by the guillotine in 1793.
Detailed explanation-3: -The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 50 km (31 miles) from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy.
Detailed explanation-4: -storming of the Bastille, iconic conflict of the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison.