The outbreak of Revolution

The privileged refuse to pay taxes, the king brought together the General States, formed by the representatives of the 3 estates (each estate have one
vote). The Third Estate called for greater representation in the voting. The rest of the estates refused, and the Third Estate left the room and became National Assembly. (Tennis Court Oath). This Assembly had representatives contained by the bourgeosisie and ilustrated privileged, that they want to do a constitution.
With the threat of a reaction of the privileged, the people stormed the Bastille prison initiating the Revolution (July 14, 1789)

The Revolution spread to other cities from Paris. In rural the peaseants rebelled against the aristocracy (the Great Fear) burning nobility's propierties. At the end of 1789 Louis XVI recognised the Constituent National Assembly's legality.