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Took place at the de la Revolution after the fall of the monarchy. Louis was arrested and tried for high treason. He was the first victim of the reign of terror.
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The Eatates of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (first Estate), nobles (second Estate), and common people (third Estate).
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A pledge signed by 576 members of the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General.
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Happened in Paris, France on the morning of July,14 1789. The Storming of the Bastille was a medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.
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17 July and 3 August 1789. A general panic at the start of the French Revelution.
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The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the History of human and civil rights.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on July 12 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.
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Created by the National Assembly during the French revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly.
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Started the 2nd of September and ended the 7th. The Septemeber Massacres was a wave of killing in Paris and other citites in late summer of 1792. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed to join them.
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The National Convention met in September 1792 and voted to abolish the monarchy immediately and establish a republic. It proceeded to try Louis XVI for treason, convicted him, and executed him on January 21, 1793.
