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National assembly
in the Jeu de Paume -
Womens March
On Versailles, demanding bread -
Bastille Day
The beginning of the Revolution (Jean-Pierre Houel, 1789) -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Abolition of the Ancien Regime -
France was divided
Into departments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa did not get their own department -
Louis XVI was forced
To sign 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 arrest of Louis XVI and his family at Varennes, Thomas Falcon Mashall, 1854) -
Defend of the Basque
Dominique Garat defended the Basque foruak when the only law for all france was proclaimed. -
The National Convetion
It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximilien Robespierre, 1790). -
Olympe de Gouges
wrote the Declaration of the RIghts f Woman and the Female citizen -
The French Republic
Was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national in 1795 -
Louis XVI was
guillotined, acussed of treason -
The War of the Convention
Shook Europe. On the left, Battle of Fleurus, Belgium (jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the victory f Baztan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque Country. -
Time of the Directory
Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The battle of the pyramids, Francois-Louis-Joseph Watteau, 1798-1799).