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born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution
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There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob
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The Women's March on Versailles was a riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution
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He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
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which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary
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that followed, in which about 1,400 persons were executed, contributed to the fall of Robespierre on July 27
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the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era.
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Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris.
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the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France
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invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage
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an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea just 10 miles from the Italian mainland
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