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Essay / Negative effects of the French Revolution - 1018
Many decrees limited the power of the king, which the royalists did not accept. Many members of the Third became angry with the king, forcing him to attempt to flee France with his family. Unfortunately, the escape didn't work. King Louis XVI and his family are forcibly brought back to Paris. Along with the movement of the National Assembly, Paris became the new center of the revolution. Not only did these reforms affect the nobility, but they also affected the status of the clergy in France. Church reform took away all land owned by the Church and also forced clergy to swear to withdraw from the revolution. To add to all this, the National Constituent Assembly drafted a new constitution in