They wanted to buy bread for their families. They began to march through Paris demanding bread at a fair price. As they marched, more people joined the group and soon there were thousands of marchers.
Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”  which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, and resistance to oppression.
Rise of Napoleon
was a period of violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. from Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.
Fall of Napoleon
Louis XVI was guillotined in the Place of revolution on January 21, 1793. His wife, Marie Antoinette, met the same fate nine months later, on October 16, 1793.  died in prison where living conditions were horrible.
Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military.  (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne after allied Austrian, Russian forces vanquished his army and occupied Paris. Banished into exile on Elba, he returned less than a year later to challenge the weak Bourbon king replaced him.
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