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The situation began to escalate violently in June as the National Assembly began to demand more rights, and Louis XVI began to push back with efforts to suppress the Third Estate.

However, the king's ineffectiveness and the queen's unpopularity undermined the monarchy as an institution, and so these attempts failed.

Then, on 11 July, Necker was dismissed.

Paris was besieged by riots at the news, which culminated in the storming of the Bastille on 14 July.