what steps were taken by louis the sixteen since 1789
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In May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates General to address the fiscal crisis, an advisory assembly of different estates or socio-economic classes (the clergy, the nobility and the commoners). ... By July 1789, he was forced to acknowledge the National Assembly's authority.
As France slipped into crisis, Louis XVI tried to solve the country's financial woes by forcing increased tax rates on the citizens, including new taxes for the nobility. ... Louis did not recognize the significance of the storming of the Bastille and failed to respond to the early stages of the French Revolution.
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