The document discusses the causes and events of the French Revolution. It began with widespread discontent among the lower classes due to high bread prices and poverty while the king lived extravagantly. Enlightenment ideas of equality and representative government also grew increasingly influential. When the Estates-General met in 1789 to address the country's debt crisis, the Third Estate demanded equal representation which led to the formation of the National Assembly and the abolition of feudalism. The storming of the Bastille and fear among peasants further radicalized the Revolution.

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