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11ACTIVITY SOCIAL

  • 1789

    1789
    In October 1789, women's march on Versailles, demanding bread.
  • 1789

    1789
    On June 1787, National Assembly in the jeu de Paume, ball or tennis court (Jacques-Louis David, 1781)
  • 1789

    1789
    On 14 July 1789, Bastille Day, the beginning of the Revolution (Jean-Pierre Houel, 1789)
  • 1789

    1789
    On August 1789, Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regime
  • 1790

    1790
    1790, France was divided into departaments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Behera and Zuberoa did not get their own.
  • 1791

    1791
    The National Convention began in 1791. It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror an it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximilien Robespierre, 1790)
  • 1791

    1791
    1791, Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
  • 1791

    1791
    1791, Dominique Garat defended the Basque foruak when the only law for all France was proclamed.
  • 1791

    1791
    On September 1791, Louis XVI was forced to sing the Constitution and the constitutional manarchy 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
  • 1792

    1792
    On September 1792, the French Republic was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1795.
  • 1793

    1793
    On January 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason.
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    (1793-1795)

    The War of the Convention (1793-1795) shook Europe. On yhe left, Battle of Fleurus, Belgium (Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the victory of Baztan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque Country.
  • 1795-1799

    1795-1799
    At the time of the Directory (1795-1799), Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The Battle of the Pyramids, Francois-Louis-Josph Watteau 1798-1799).