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John Locke believed in the natural rights of humans. This started controversy building up the revolution itself.
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John Locke wrote the second treatise. This also caused problems because people were not used to people speaking their own beliefs.
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The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789.
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789
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On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established".
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On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob.
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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
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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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The popular press portrayed the royal family as pigs and public opinion plummeted. Increasingly there were demands for an end to the monarchy and the creation of a new kind of government, a republic. 1790
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The National Assembly began the process of drafting a constitution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, adopted on 27 August 1789 eventually became the preamble of the constitution adopted on 3 September 1791.The Declaration offered sweeping generalizations about rights, liberty, and sovereignty.
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In France, Napoleon became associated with Augustin Robespierre. They got along.
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The Committee of Public Safety succeeded the previous Committee of General Defense (established in January 1793) and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.
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Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France
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Napoleon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the army
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In 1796, Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais
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in 1804, he crowned himself emperor of France in a lavish ceremony at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
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Napoleon crowns himself the Emperor of France. This lasts until he dies.
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In October 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena.
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He died in Saint Helena, on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer.
