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The French Revolution

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THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE

  • July 14 1789
  • first violent action of the French Revolution
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THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN

  • August 27 1789
  • A fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. Wikipedia
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THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON VERSAILLES

  • October 5, 1789
  • The crowd besieged the palace and, in a dramatic and violent confrontation
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SEPTEMBER MASSACRES

  • (2-7) September 1792
  • there was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them.
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EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI

  • January 21, 1793
  • Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which reduced him to a mere figurehead
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EXECUTION OF MARIE ANTOINETTE

  • October 16, 1793
  • The young couple soon came to symbolize all of the excesses of the reviled French monarchy, and Marie Antoinette herself became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip
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REIGN OF TERROR

  • from July 1793 to July 1794
  • justice, prompt, severe, inflexible

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