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Many regiments and foreigners liked his ideas. (Furet, page 66).
             The peasants were people blocked out of sight though. Louis did not recognize their opinions. This caused them to riot(Greenlaw, page vii). Peasants did not live under the common Serfdom found in Europe. They had their own land and they were somewhat of a way free, but they had to pay tribute to the nobility that owned the land. With this land the peasants farmed. Agriculture was the work for peasants(Greenlaw, page 50). The main reason for the peasants upraising was the seigneurs, the people that owned the land. They did not want to pay tribute anymore. The seigneurs didn't listen, so the peasants started riots (Kennedy, page 4).
             The peasants' riots varied from harsh violent trashing, to not paying tribute the seigneurs. The National Assembly saw the peasants as an advantage for their side. The Assembly made a pact with peasants, and now they were together. The first major act was the most dramatic. The National Assembly along with the peasants destroyed the feudal regime in France. This destruction scars France still to this day(Greenlaw, page vii). .
             Louis' troops that he sent did almost the same amount of damage as the rioters in France. The rioters broke tolls, didn't pay taxes, and stole from gunsmiths. Total anarchy was over the country. Louis saw all these crazy escapades and decided to do something. Louis formed the first National Guard(Furet, page 67). The National Guard went around and tried to get rid of the rioters. The National Guard was accompanied by the French army. These two groups had the power of a modern day police officer. They were strong, but had sometimes been confused about to whom they should listen to, since Louis and the nobility were on separate sides of the revolution(Bosher, 153).
             The rioters were also in forms of mobs. One of these mobs decided to get weapons for their own protection. There were two groups in this one mob, the Bastille group and the Hatel de Ville group.


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