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Elena's French Revolution

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man
    Its an important document of the French Revolution and the history of human and civil rights. It was the first step toward writing a constitution for France. The document is important for all people because it inspired the French Revolution.
  • Storming the Bastille

    Storming the Bastille
    The Bastille was a prison and it was attacked by an angry mob. It was attacked by rebels from the third estate. This event was the start of the French Revolutionary war and it was the eventual fall of the French monarchy.
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    French Revolution

    The reason for the French Revolution is because people was fighting for their rights. They all wanted to have equal rights and more freedoms.
  • Great Fear

    Great Fear
    The Great Fear was just a big panic, viloence, riots by peasants. All the peasants where scared and it was cause by economic concerns, panic, and power of rumor. Its important because when the peasants got scared they decided to panic and start rumors which should remind not to do now.
  • Napoleonic Code

    Napoleonic Code
    It is a code established under Napoleon. It was a fresh. start for Napoleon when he came to having power. It was a fresh start for Napoleon but it was first called "Civil Code of the French" but then renamed "Napoleonic Code" .
  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna
    It was a meeting of ambassadors of European chaired by Austrian. They where convened by the four European powers that had defeated Napoleon. They wanted to balance power in Europe.