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The French Republic
It was established with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1795 -
National Assembly in the Jeu de Paume
Ball or tennis court (Jacques-Louis David) -
Bastille day
The beginning of the Revolution (Jean- Pierre Houel) -
Declaration of the rights of man and of the Citizen
Abolition of the Ancien Regime -
France was divided into departments
Lapurdi, Nafarroa Behera and Zuberoa did not get their own department. -
Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
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Dominique Garat defend the Basque foruak qhen the only law for all France was proclaimed.
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Women's march on Versailles
Demanding bread. -
Louis XVI was forced to sing the Constitution and the constitutional monarchy was established.
A few months earlier, in June the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes -
The National Convention
It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship. -
The Wars of the Convention shook Europe
On the left, Battle of Fleurus, Belgium.
On the right, the victory of Baztan. In fact, the french troops conquered the south of the Bsasque Country. -
Louis XVI was guillotined
Acussed of treason -
At the time of the Directory
Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt.