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France was divided into departments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa did not get their own department -
women's march on Versailles, demanding bread -
National Assembly in the Jeu de Paume, ball or tennis court (Jacques-Louis David, 1791) -
Bstille Day, the beginning of the Revolution (Jean-Pierre Houel, 1789) -
Declaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regime -
Dominique Garat defended the Basque foruak when the only law for all France was proclaimed -
Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen -
The National Convention began in 1791. It grew more radical over time. That period was known as The Terror and it reached it's peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximilien Robespierre, 1790) -
Louis XVI was forced to sign the Constitution and the constitutional monarchywas established. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes (The arrest of Louis XVI and his family at Varennes, Thomas Falcon Mashall, 1845). -
The French Republic was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1975 -
Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason -
The Wars of the Convention (1793-1795) shook Europe. On the left, Battle of Fleureus, Belgium (Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the Victory of Baztan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque Country.
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Napoleon, fighting againts the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The Battle of the Pyramids, Francois-Louis-Joseph Watteau, 1798-1799