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''France 1792 was the year of ‘the second revolution’. On 10 August, the
king was overthrown, bringing to an end three years of uneasy
‘constitutional monarchy’. For months the legislative assembly had been
locked in conflict with Louis XVI, while at the same time fighting a war
against invading Austrians and Prussians. The Parisian masses resolved
that conflict by direct action, invading the Tuileries palace and
arresting the king. In response, the assembly called a general election –
the first election in Europe conducted under universal adult male
suffrage. Eighty years would pass before the exercise was repeated.''
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