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The first assembly of the French Revolution formed by the Third Estate
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known of as a cry of abuse of power by the Revolutionaries
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A period of peasant rage to overthrow the Third Estate
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A human civil rights document during the French Revolution
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Legislature that overruled the National Assembly
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caused the fall of the French Monarchy
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half the prison population of Paris had been executed; 1200 to 1400 of them were prisoners
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n troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris.
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a convention of a major political party; one that nominates a candidate for the presidency
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a day after being convicted the king was sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris
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Jean Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by royalist, Charlotte Corday.
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Convention adopts a new Law of Suspects, permitting the arrest and rapid trial of anyone suspected of opposing the Revolution. Start of Reign of Terror.
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a five-member committee which governed France
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Bonaparte led his army forward into Italy. He was badly outnumbered.
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Napoleon landed in Egypt with 400 ships and 54,000 men and invaded the country
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Napoleon returns from exile on the island of Elba to Paris
