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Meeting of the States General of the Dauphiné in the castle of Vizille King Louis XVI announces the celebration of the States General of France
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what they demanded with the French revolution was freedom, equality and fraternity.
Opening of the Estates General in 1789 at the Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs, in Versailles. This event is often used as the starting point of the French Revolution. -
The members of the Third State constitute a National Assembly, by refusing to deliberate jointly with the other two States.
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The Society for the Rights of Man and the Citizen, better known as the Rope Makers' Club, was founded in Paris.
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it was a significant episode of the French Revolution, in which the royal family had a serious decline in its royal authority, trying unsuccessfully to escape abroad disguised as a Russian aristocratic family.
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After being tried and condemned by the Convention, and all the maneuvers of the moderates to save his life failed, the king was guillotined in the Plaza de la Revolución at ten o'clock and twenty-two minutes. The roll of drums prevents your voice from being heard. The executioner raises his head before a shocked crowd, who learned that same morning of the murder of the deputy Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau by a former bodyguard.
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The deposed queen is guillotined after a mock trial in the Revolutionary Court, during which she is accused of having incestuous relations with her son.
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After a year in which the Thermidorians control the Convention, and four years of authoritarian rule through the Directory, the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire takes place, in which General Napoleon Bonaparte, recently returned from Egypt, takes power as first consul. France already has the dictator repeatedly sued by Marat.