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National assembly in the Jeu de Paume ball or tennis court (Jackes -Louis David,1791)
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The beginning of the Revolution (Jean-Pierre Houël, 1789)
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Dleclaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regome
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Women's march on Versailles, demanding bread
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France was divided into deparments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Behera and Zuberoa did not get their own deparment
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The National Convection began in 1791. It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximillian Roberspierre, 1790
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Dominique Garat defended the basque foruak when the only law for all France was ploclaimed
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Olympe de Gourges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of the Woman and the Female Citizen
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Louis XVI was forced to sing the Constitution and the constitutional monarchy was established. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes, Thomas Flacon Mashall, 1854)
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The French Republic was estabilished, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1795.
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Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason.
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The Wars of the Convection shook Europe. On the left, Battle of Fleaurus, Belgium (Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the victory of Bazatan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque Country.
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At the time of the DIrectory, Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The Battle of the Pyramids, Francois- Louis-Joseph Watteau.