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A meeting with all 3 members of the heads of France. -
It was a dramatic act of defiance. It happened during the meeting of the Estates-General at the beginning of the French Revolution. The vote wasn't to separate but to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established. -
Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. It became a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule. It happened in Paris, France. -
It was a book. -
It was one of the earliest events of the French Revolution. They ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. -
He was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution. -
A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival politician factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Marked by mass executions of "the enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged around 16,594 executed bu guillotine and another 25,000 in summary execution across France.
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Many of the revolutionary leaders had enough of the Terror so they turned on Robespierre. They had him arrested. He was executed, along with many of his supporters, by guillotine. -
The napoleonic was finally approved. It codified several branches of la, including commercial and criminal law. It divided the civil law into categories of property and family. -
He proclaimed himself emperor. It happened in the Notre-Dame in Paris. The royal court of the French Emperor became a public spectacle of pomp and elegance. -
It was a military conflict fought by Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the invading and occupying forces of France for control of the Iberian Peninsular during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independance.
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The Grande Armée was led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, and invaded Russia from what is present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Amée of more than 500,000 European troops. -
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, abdicates the throne, the Treaty of Fontainebleau is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.