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also marked the start of the French Revolution.
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dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation the Third Estate
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When the prison was attacked it actually held only seven prisoners, but the mob had not gathered for them: it had come to demand the huge ammunition stores held within the prison walls.
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was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General
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Louis was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310
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was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly
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commonly called The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic
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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution
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She was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
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a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution,
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he was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
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the end of the National Convention and the excesses of the Reign of Terror and the Committee of Public Safety
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was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI.
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He was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War,
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he was known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Roman Catholic Abbé,