selves the National Assembly. The National Assembly promised to fight until France changed. Louis deprived the National Assmbly of its meeting hall. They responded and met at a tennis court, where they made the Tennis Court Oath. They would not dissolve until it they had drafted a constitution for France. Serious divisions split the ranks of the upper two estates. Numerous representatives of the lower clergy and a number of the liberal nobles broke off to join forces with the national Assembly. The king is told about all of this by the nobles and the tennis court is broken up. While this is going on, the peasants and the workers suffered from bad harvests and depression. Food was scarce, prices were high, and unemployment was widespread. When the king threatened the Assembly, crowds in Paris started to look for weapons. The peasants blamed the nobles and transitioned from obeying to destroying. On July 14, the crowd stormed Bastille, the prison, for gunpowder. Then they marched in to Town Hall, murdered the mayor of Paris, and set up a new city government. They romed the country side, tore up books that contained records, stopped paying taxes, and took back forests, woods, and lakes. The National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Jefferson and Lafaeyette were involved in writing the declaration. With this everyone has rights and everyone is equal. The nobility lost all of its power. The Declaration of the Rights of Man was not fast enough. The women rose up and marched from Paris to Versailles to Queen Marie Antoinette. The women started chanting,"we want bread," and the queen replied, "let them eat cake". The women slaughter the royal guards, get to the king and queen, and imprison them. Lafaeyette convinces them not to kill the king and queen. In 1792, the new French government imprisons the king with thousands of other people. There was a rumor that the king was going to overthrow the g...
