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The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution. it was a assembly against the king.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution.It displayed the belief that political authority.
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was a turning point in the French Revolution, and a symbolic event in European history. It demonstrated that a force of people could challenge a monarchy and overpower it. The six months leading up to July 14 was a period of ever-increasing turmoil.
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it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system.
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The March on Versailles. Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March.This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine
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Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution.
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the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code.
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Napoleon's motivations for being crowned were to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty.
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Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britain, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees.
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the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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he had been getting sicker for several months, suffering from recurrent abdominal pain, progressive weakness and unabating constipation.
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The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.