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The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society. On May 5th, 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General.
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A Revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of Third Estate.
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The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing.
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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 civil rights.
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A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from the rain.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French Government.
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Significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution.
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There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them.
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Took place 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution.
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Formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror.
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French political theorist, physician, and scientist who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.
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Period of extreme violence during the French Revolution
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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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Brother of Queen Marie Antoinette invaded France to restore Marie and Louis XVI to power.
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French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the year lll, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799.
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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup defeat, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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The site of Napoleon's defeat by British and Prussian armies led by the Duke of Wellington in 1815, which ended his last bid for power
