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Period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics.
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France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria.
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An assembly formed by the Third Estate and a oath to force and new constitution on the King.
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The Third Estate took a oath saying "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established."
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Basille was attacked by a angry mob of people.
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Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly. Influenced by Thomas Jefferson and the Natural Rights
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The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread.
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The Legislative Assembly France's governing body, formed in 1791 declared war on Austria.
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Evidence of Louis XVI’s counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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Jaun-Paul was giving a list of traitors by a women named Charlotte Corday as he look a the list, Corday stabbed him she was arrested and killed by the Guillotine.
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She lost custody of her young son, who was forced to accuse her of sexual abuse and incest
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French Revolutionary leader and orator, often credited as the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy.
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Protect France against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the government
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Robespierre and his allies were placed under arrest by the National Assembly. Robespierre was taken to the Luxembourg prison in Paris, but the warden refused to jail him, and he fled to the Hotel de Ville.
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Robespirre was giving a shot gun while in prison he shot himself but missed and shot is lower jaw. After that incident he was executed by The Guillotine.
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Gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
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After seizing political power he crowned himself emperor
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Napoleon Bonaparte, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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Reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. Began 5 months after Napoleon I’s first abdication.
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He escapes from Elba and retuns and tries to take over Paris.
