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Critics embraced his epic poem, La Henriade, but its satirical attack on politics and religion infuriated the government, and Voltaire was arrested in 1717. He spent nearly a year in the Bastille.
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A colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783.
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Became Louis XVI upon his grandfathers death
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a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, though popularly the shorter form persisted.
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incomplete painting by Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution.
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occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.
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a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat.
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was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition.