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may 5,1789 Louis XVI summons Estates -general for its first meeting since 1614
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parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the bourbon monarchs
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the representatives of the french people, organized in national Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contemptof the rights of a man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruptionof goverments.
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The flight to varennes was the royal family's failed attempt to escape paris in june 1791
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King Lous XVI of france accepts the french constitution of 1791 named new constitution
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on august 10th 1792 a little more than three years after their attack on bastille the people of paris laid siege to another royalist symbol.this time the target was the tuileries palace, the official residence of louis XVI and the home of the legislative
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1793 King Louis XVI executed
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the law of suspect is passed, authorizing the creaton of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the republic and to punish those convinced with death
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nine months after the execution of her husband, the former king louis XVI of France, marie-antoinne follows him to the guilotine
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robvespierre, the committee of public safety and jaybin club denounce the hebertists and dantonists on framed up charges and execute all the popular leaders. robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
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maximillen robespierre, the architect of the french revolution's reign of terror, is overthrown and arrested by the national convention.
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on october 5 1795 napoleon was in paris when a large angry parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruling national convention at the tuileries palace. vicomte paul de barras, who had been at toulon and was impressed by napoleon's military
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the convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the directorate
