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                      {  # FRANCE REVOLUTION}
The French revolution is considered to be one of the most important revolutions in history
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This was the origin
of phrases such as 'left wing ' and 'right wing
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during the 1600s, a new intellectual movement
began in Europe
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people asked themselves, should the
existing system continue
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This era is known as the
age of enlightenment
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He claimed that the reason for my existence is my ability to think for myself
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nobility, clergy, and
peasantry were about 2% of the population
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the common people
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Then
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the farmers had to pay heavy taxes
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When Louis XVi became King, he made Robert Jacques Turgot his finance minister
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His ideology was basically that government should N't interfere
in anything at all
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this led to grain prices increasing rapidly
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there was unprecedented inflation
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called the flour war
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she used to send love
letters to a swedish nobleman
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people
considered the king and queen to be sent by God
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, people were certain that she was N't sent
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the estate
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the actual
decisionmaking power was with the king alone
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the clergy and nobility joined hands to vote against the people
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they declared their independent government on 17th June
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Left wing and right wing is the two commonly used phrases when discussing politics
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the right wing
was the reaction to the ideologies of left wing
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and so he should
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a rumour started spreading that King
Louis was planning on attacking Paris to overthrow the National Assembly
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they attacked the Bastille fort on 14th July
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king Louis refused to sign the declaration of the rights of man and
of the citizen
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they
agreed that things had become unbearable
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The French activist and
feminist Olympe de Gouges published the declaration of the rights of woman and of the
female citizen
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elections were called in 1791 and in 1792, the monarchy was completely
abolished
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King Louis and Marie Antoinette
were imprisoned for their crimes
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they
were executed by the revolutionaries

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