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Faubourg Saint Antoine; workers and artisans
-
lettres de cachet
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“The Great Fear” in the countryside
II From Estates General to National Assembly
·Summer
of 1788 Estates General is called.
·Elections
held
January to April of 1789.
·Drawing up
of cahiers
de doléances
·5 May,
opening
of Estates General in Versailles
·17 June,
declaration
of National Assembly
·20 June,
Oath of
the Tennis Court
·Louis
XVI’s brothers, Comte de Provence (future Louis XVIII) and Comte
d’Artois
(future Charles X) flee country
III The Rights of Man
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The Abolition of “feudalism”, 4 August 1789
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The Declaration of the rights of man and citizen, 26 August, 1789
