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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
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The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly.
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Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.
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It was an important result of the French Revolution and adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen as its introduction.
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine.
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Was a decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety.
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Marie-Antoinette tried and executed.
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They were guillotined on 17 July 1794, during the Reign of Terror and buried in a mass grave at Picpus Cemetery.
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Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot" save the Directory from a royalist mob.
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Was a single-chamber assembly in France.
