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He was born in Corsica. He was the son of a lawyer whose family came from the Florentine noblilty.
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The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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It had been a group of women who convinced Louis XVI to return to Paris from Versallies.
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wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women. She addressed the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette.
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Conflict and fractions sprung up everywhere.King Louis XVI became a prisoner on August 10, and the current ruling body, the Legislative Assembly, was ousted. The citizens of Paris rioted in September, killing over a thousand, including nobles and clergymen.
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King Louis and his wife was forced to move. They were convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention,
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a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions
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Robespierre was a very powerful man and was obsessed woth ridding France of all its corrupt elements. People were scared of him but finally stood up and had enough votes to condemn him.
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The Constitution of 22 August 1795 (also known as the Constitution of the Year III, or the Constitution of 5 Fructidor) was a national constitution of France ratified by the National Convention on 22 August 1795 during the French Revolution.
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The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and, in the view of most historians, ended the French Revolution
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It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status
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Became the First Consul at 30 years of age.As First Consul, Napoleon was clearly the highest power in the land, and a fairly absolutist ruler.
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He was crowned by Pope Pius VII as Napoleon I, on 2 December 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris and then crowned Joséphine Empress. According to legend, Napoleon seized the crown out of the hands of the pope at the last minute and crowned himself to avoid being subject to papal authority.
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The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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Napoleon was the maser of urope until 1812.
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Napoleon created 3,263 nobles between 1808 and 1814.
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The invasion of Russia was an attempt to force Tsar Alexander I to submit once again to the terms of a treaty that Napoleon had imposed upon him four years earlier.
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Napoleon was sent to exile on the island of Elba.
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Brought an end to the Napoleonic era of European history
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Napoleon made his entry into Paris in truimph.
