The Great Fear
This was a period in time were the peasants were rioting and panic everywhere. This lead to an aristocratic conspiracy by the king and the nobles to overthrow the third estate. The gathering of the troops had provoked the peasants which had went to violence. This started when the Bastille was seized on July 14TH 1789. In the provinces the peasants rose against their lords, attacking châteaus and destroying feudal documents. To check the peasants, the National Constituent Assembly and Introduced the Declaration of the rights of man.