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The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution.
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They took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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In its preamble and its 17 articles, 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, and affirms the principle of separation of powers.
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The Women's March on Versailles was a riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution.
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In November 1792, a 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 on 21 January 1793.
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The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.