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revolutionary assembly is formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General and petitioned the King of France for many rights.
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the national assembly found themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court. There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution.
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passed by France's National Constituent Assembly, as a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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the governing body of France between October 1791 and September 1792. It replaced the National Convention Assembly. It was formed under the Constitution of 1791, which created a constitutional monarchy with Louis XVI as the head of state.
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France declares war on Austria and Prussia.
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a single-chamber assembly in France (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar) during the French Revolution. Among its early acts were the formal abolition of the monarchy (September 21) and the establishment of the republic (September 22).
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was executed for treason by guillotine.
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created by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror.
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a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror, the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
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After a two-day trial begun on October 14th, 1793, Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason, and executed by guillotine.
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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, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire (8–9 November 1799) and replaced by the Consulate.
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Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.