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In the 1770s, the social and polytical system of France, the Old Regime, remained in place. Under this system, the people of France were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
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During the 1770s and 1780s, France's government sank deeply into debt.
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By the 1780s, France's once prosperous economy was in decline. Bad weather in the 1780s caused widspread crop failures, resulting in a severe shortage of grain.
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At the age age of 16, Napoleon finished school and became a lietenant in the artillery.
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The price of bread doubled so many people faced starvation.
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The meeting, the first in 175 years, was held on May 5, 1789, at Versailles.
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The Third Estate delegates found themselves locked out of their meeting rooms. They broke down a door to an indoor tennis court, pledging to stay until they had drawn up new constitution.
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A mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille.
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Third Estate delegates voted to establish the National Assembly, in effect proclaiming the end of the absolute monarchy and the beginning of the representative government.
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Throughtout the night, nobelmen made grand speeches. declaring their love of liberty and equality.
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Thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising price of bread.
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By 1791, the delegates had made significant changes in France's government and society.
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The royal family tries to escape from France to the Austrian Netherlands.
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The National Assembly completed the new constitution, which Louis reluctantly approved.
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Prussian forces were advancing to Paris.
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About 20,000 men and women invade the tuileries, the palace where the royal famaly was staying.
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Robespierre became the leader of the Committe of Publi Safety. For the next year, he governed France virtually as a dictator, and the period of his rule became known as the Reign of Terror.
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Fearing for their own safety, some members of the National Convention turned on Robespierre. They demanded his arrest and execution.
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The Reing of Terror, the radical phase of the French Revolution, ended, when Robespierre went to the guillotine.
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Whe royalist rebels marched on the National Convention, a government official told Napoleon to defend the delegates. Napoleon and his gunners greeted the thousands of royalist whith a cannonade. Whithin minutes, the attafled in panic and confusion. Napoleon Bonaparte ecame the hero of the hour and was hailed throughtout Paris as the savior of French Republi.
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The directory apointed Napoleon to lead a French army against the forces of Austria and the Kingdom of Sardina.
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Britain, Austria, and Russia joined forces whith one goal in mind, to drive Napoleon from power.
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Troops under his command surrounded the national legislature and drove out most of its members.
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Desperate for strong leadership, the people voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contitucion. This gave all real power to Napoleon as first consul.
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He wants to restore its productive sugar industry. However, the french forces were devastated by disease. And the rebels proved to be fierce fighters.
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Europe was in peacetime for the first time in 10 years , Napoleon was free to focus his energies on restoring order in France.
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Napoleon decided to make himself emperor, and the french voters supported him.
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As the thousands watched, the new emperor took the crown from the pope an placed it on his own head. With this gesture, Napoleon signaled that he was more powerful than the Church, which had traditionally crowned the rulers of France.
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Napoleon set up a blockade forcible closing ports to precent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European Nations.
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Napoleon most disastrous mistake.
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He faced the allied armies of the European powers outside the German city of Leipzig.
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Within days in France, Napoleon was back as emperor.
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