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France was very interested in helping the Americans to defeat the English enemy.
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Meeting of the three estates clergy nobility and peasents. Meetings started because of need for representation.
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Was official start to French Revolution. Third estate tore down church of Bastille.
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When the representatives of the people made a set of rights that man is born with. Eventually lead to the new constitution.
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When an angry mob of women storm the castle, to bring the King and Queen back to Paris and stop the starvation. Killing everyone in their way. They paraded heads of the guards on pikes on the way back to Paris with the King and Queen in a cart behind them.
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When the King and Queen decided to flee from the country to escape death, after they were forced to move back to Paris. They were caught at the border and taken into house arrest for treason.
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After French King Louis XVI was accused of treason, he was beheaded.
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The guillotine was a major killing machine during this time. Aristcrats and loyalists got the blade the most.
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Maximilien Robespierre lead the French Revolution for a long while, called the incorruptable. He eventually let tthe power get to his head and practically claimed himself God.
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Napolean was a great leader, and took over for Robespierre after he was executed. Bonaparte acted as if not leading France for glory, but for the good of the people,
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When Napolean tried to defeat Russia, but they did not want to fight his very large army, and burned everything around them and Napoleans army. The hungary troop was forced to retreat.
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Confrence of ambassadors. First agknowledgement after Napoleonic wars. Formed national boundaries.
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First loss of the French, while under leadership of General Napolean. Defeated by the British and Prussians. End of Bonapartes' reign and domination of France.
