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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783.
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The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, the last of Estates General of Kingdom of France.
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During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, though popularly the shorter form persisted
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.
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The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.
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The King and his family tried to flee France, hostitliaty became more pronounced, the escape from Paris faile
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Guillotined
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The Committee of Public Safety, created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the provisional government in France during the Reign of Terror, a phase of the French Revolution
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The Reign of Terror, or more commonly The Terror, refers to a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First French Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions
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On trial for treason, theft and sexual abuse.
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The Directory was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when the Directory was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and replaced by the Consulate. It gave its name to the final four years of the French Revolution
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