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Versailles is constructed
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Descartes "Discourse on Method"
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Peace of Westphalia
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The First Fronde
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French classicism
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the Second Fronde
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Louis XIV reign begins
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Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes Prime Minister
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Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws"
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Diderot's Encyclopedia
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Voltaire's "Candide"
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Rousseau's "Emile"
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French Revolution
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Abbe Sieye's "What is the Third Estate?"
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Tennis Court Oath
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
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Marie Antoinette executed
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King Louis XIV executed
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Committee of Public Safety
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Robespierre executed
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The Directory
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Napoleon's coup d'etat
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Napoleonic Wars
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Napoleonic Code
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Louis XVII coronation
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Revolution of France
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Louis Napoleon elected President
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Bloody June Days
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Louis Philippe abdicates
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Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III
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Baron Haussmann redesigns Paris
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Pasteur's Germ Theory
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3rd Republic of France
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Impressionist movement
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Paris Commune rejects Prussia
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Post-Impressionism
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Boulanger Affair
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Dreyfus Affair
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Emile Zola's "J'Accuse"