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Hello friends! Welcome to a new happy learning video.

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Today we're going to learn about the French Revolution.

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One of the most important events in world history

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since it shifted the passage from the modern age to the contemporary age

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and performed the biggest political and social change that has ever been known in Europe.

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The French Revolution occurred at the end of the 18th century, exactly in the year 1789.

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At that time, King Louis XVI ruled.

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It was an absolute monarchy.

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That is, the king had all the power and could make the decisions that he wanted,

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without having to answer to anyone.

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Thanks to his power, Louis XVI and all the nobles who supported him had great wealth and great privileges.

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Meanwhile, the common people, the bourgeois, such as medical lawyers, artisans, merchants or peasants,

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had to pay many taxes and lived, the vast majority, in misery.

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Fed up with this situation, the most disadvantaged social classes formed the National Assembly

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and decided to write a constitution where the rights and duties of all social classes were collected

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in a more just and egalitarian manner.

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From that moment on, violent riots began.

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On July 14th, 1789, in Paris, the capital of France,

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a large mass of people went to Bastille, prison,

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where all those who had opposed the king were imprisoned, to free them.

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This assault became the symbol of the revolution.

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In the rest of the country, there were also many revolts and peasants rebelled violently against the noble, looting and destroying their castles.

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The National Assembly took power and governed based on three great values, liberty, equality and fraternity.

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The new governors wrote a very important document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen,

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antecedent of the constitution that was approved two years later the French

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people dethroned King Louis the 16th and both he and Queen Marie Antoinette his

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wife were beheaded in the guillotine the consequences of the French Revolution

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were many but the most important thing was that it ended the inequality between

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social classes that new rights were established for citizens and that

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democratic ideas were spread to the rest of the countries of Europe.

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The truth is that knowing the past, the present is better understood and the future is improved.

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Don't you think?

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Goodbye friends, until the next happy learning video!