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The social contract was an occurrence during which individuals came together and ceded some of their individual rights so that others would cede theirs. This resulted in the establishment of the state which would create laws to regulate social interactions.
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a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate, or the common people
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the members of the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.
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The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.
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passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered
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a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government
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executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution
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convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention,
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a French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
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the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799.
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Napoleonic Code was a civil legal system in France
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress.
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he foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Napoleon's forces marched into Belgium, where separate armies of British and Prussian troops were camped. Napoleon defeated the Prussians under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher.
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the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner.
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On May 5th, 1821, Napoleon died from stomach cancer, according to his Physician.
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France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment