MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the reign of the Committee of Public Safety
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the trail of Louis XIV
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the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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the fall of the Bastille
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Detailed explanation-1: -On July 14, 1789, thousands of Parisians stormed the prison to protest King Louis XVI’s abuse of power. It was a defining moment of the revolution that toppled the monarchy. When angry commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, they struck a blow against one of the monarchy’s most forbidding symbols.
Detailed explanation-2: -A popular insurgency culminated on July 14 when rioters stormed the Bastille fortress in an attempt to secure gunpowder and weapons; many consider this event, now commemorated in France as a national holiday, as the start of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -They believed that this food was necessary to stop people from rioting. However, in the years 1788 and 1789, the grain crops were destroyed and did not grow well. As a result, the price of the bread increased by 88 percent. This rise in price of bread caused the people to protest.
Detailed explanation-4: -The capture of the Bastille symbolized the end of the ancien regime and provided the French revolutionary cause with an irresistible momentum. In 1792, the monarchy was abolished and Louis and his wife Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine for treason in 1793.