The French Revolution began as a response to a financial crisis that left France deeply in debt. King Louis XVI called together the Estates General to address reforms but divisions emerged over voting procedures. The Third Estate formed the National Assembly and seized power. Peasant uprisings broke out as economic conditions worsened. The storming of the Bastille marked the start of the Revolution. Reforms attacked the power of the nobility and church, radicalizing conservatives and foreign monarchs against the Revolution. Internal divisions grew as radical Jacobins took power and the Reign of Terror began, eliminating enemies of the state under Robespierre until his own fall from power.
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