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A meeting with all the members of the Estate.
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During the Estates-General meeting, a dramatic act of defiance by the representatives of the non privileged classes of the French nation. Is known as the Tennis Court Oath.
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The attack of the Bastille was done by Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops. The attack signaled the beginning of the French Revolution.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man defined individual and collective rights at the time.
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A women led riot on the castle doorstep. They demanded some support with the food shortages only to have the King and Queen ignore them.
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King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution.
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Following the creation of the first republic, a large series of massacres and executions took place.
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Arrested the previous day, Robespierre was executed at the Place de la Revolution.
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The Civil Code was renamed to Napoleonic Code. It addressed mainly matters relating to property and families.
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Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France and Josephine empress.
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A battle between Spain, The United Kingdom, and Portugal against the invading forces of France for control of Iberian Peninsula.
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He did of stomach cancer during his exile.
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The invasion of Russia was disastrous for the French. The Grand Armee lost more than 300,000 men.
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He chose to be banished to the mediterranean Island of Elba