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Bourbon Monarchy Ends
The Bourbon dynasty had thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg already had monarchs of the Bourbons. -
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National Assembly is in session making the first constitution
Assembly's belief in a nation run by monarchs and can be seen in the constitution to separate powers. The National Assembly was legislative body, the king, ministers but, the judiciary was independent of other two branches. -
Storming of the Bastille
In Paris, France the prison where debtors were kept, it was destroyed and set all of them free. The building showed power and royalty which was destroyed by the anger citizens -
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Duration of National Convention
The National Convention was the third government who was the first French assembly elected without distinctions of class. -
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Commitee of Public Safety Conducts the Reign of Terror
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Second constitution est. Directory government
It was a group of five men with executive power in France according to the constitution of the French Revolution . Chosen by the new legislature, the Council of 500 and the Council of Ancients each year one director was eventually replaced. -
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Term of Directory Government
Directory would have no legislative power had authority to appoint people to fill the other positions within government. Annual elections were held. -
Napoleon conducts coup d'etat directory government est. consulate government
Consulate was government of France from fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire until start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. The Consulate also refers to period of French history.
