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French Revolution
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Storming of the Bastille
The angry population of Paris was launched to the assault of the prison of the Bastille, an ancient fortress that had become a symbol of the real despotism. His fall in the hands of the people was the vibrant early in the French Revolution -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
It abolished the feudal privileges and was drafted. In this reflected principles as the separation of powers and the right to freedom, property and equality. -
Flight to Varennes
was a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution. Their destination was Austria because that is where Marie was from and they knew they would find safety in their newly found French Austrian agreement. They were only able to make it as far as the small town of Varennes. -
Proclamation of the first Constitution of France.
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty, following the steps of the United States of America. -
The national convention is dissolved.
In September 1792 the French National Convention met for the first time. It replaced the Legislative Assembly, which created it in order to draw up a new republican constitution. Their first order of business, however, was the trial and execution of Citizen Louis Capet, formerly King Louis XIV. -
Maximillien de Robespierre
He led the so-called "Reign of Terror", during which he ruled, so autocratic, to France, plunging the country into a period of political persecution, widespread uncertainty and continued executions for treason, sedition, -
Abolition of the exclavitud in all the French colonies
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Coup d'état of 18-19 ". Napoleon was proclaimed First Consul.
This was the end of the french revolution
In 1804 Napoleón Bonaparte was crowned emperor
