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The Estates General
Was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates - General , a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm : the clergy (First estate ) , the nobles ( Second Estate ) , and the common people ( Third Estate ) -
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly was formed. Members of the third estate or the lower class basically agreed to band together and fight for what they belived until something changed and they got what they wanted -
Storming of the Bastille
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The Great Fear
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National Assembly abolishes feudal privilages
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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women march to Versailles
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King Louis brought from Versailles to Paris
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
A law passed during the French revolution that changed the social class structure and made the Catholic church less powerful than the French government -
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Flight to Varennes
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Massacre of the Champs de Mars
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Declaration of Pillnitz
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French Constitution
Was the first written constitution in France , created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Regime . One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality -
Revolution of 10 August
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The Insurrection
Was one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution . The day of 10 August resulted in the fall of the French Monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard. -
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Semptember Massacres
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Monarchy is Abolished and France is Declared a Republc
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The committee of Public Safety begins de-Christianization
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Louis XVI execution
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Vendee Counter Revolution
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Murder of Marat
Charlotte Corday, a sympathizer, murdered him while he was taking a medicinal bath for his skin condition. He was considered a martyr among revolutionaries and was changed into an icon because of Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Death of Marat" -
Reign of Terror Begins
period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established. Time with enormous bloodshed -
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The Great Terror
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Law of Suspects
Was a decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety on 17 September 1793 , during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. -
The Queen Defense
Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son , the nominal King would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad , a Revolutionary Tribunal indicated Marie and her children for treason -
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
On March 1794 in the Krakow town square , a veteran of the American Revolutionary War announced the general uprising and assumed the powers of the commander in Chief of all the Polish forces. -
Execution of Georges Danton
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Thermidorian Reaction
Was a coup d'etat within the French Revolution against the leaders of the Jacobin Club who had dominated the Committee of Public Safety. -
Robespierre Execution
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National Convention
Assembly that governed France from September 20, 1792, until October 26, 1795, during the most critical period of the French Revolution. The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy.