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On May 4-5th of 1789, a ceremony of the Ancien regime was held in Versailles with 1200+ people attending it (mostly commoners).
The treated topic in the conference was the 56 million in debt that France owned, proposing new taxes, but that wasn´t liked by the commoners who started to plan the Revolution -
Was one of the events that marked the start of the French Revolution in which the commoners deputies considered themselves excluded from the assembly so they went to a court near them and promised each other to never separate until a constitution was written and signed by the king.
The king Louis XVI ordered the nobility and clergy to join them on June 27th in the National Assembly, this was a huge step for the commoners and the French Revolution. -
This event happened becsused it was feared that the king would use force against the National Assembly.
In consequence of the assault and because they were a minory, the governor of Bastille couldn´t do anything but giving up and hand over the power, meaning that the prisioners were freed. -
The August Decrees is a set of documents approved by the National Assembly in August of 1789 that ended feudalism in France and created laws to make the higher classes to pay taxes as well.