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After the Thirf Estate decided to leave Esatates General, they created a new National Assembly.
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Women rioted over the high price of bread. They broke into the palace and demanded bread from the King and Queen.
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Peasants were terrorized after nobles hired outlaws for security. This started the Great Fear where peasants started to attack nobles.
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After the King hired Swiss guards to protect Paris, the citizens began to fear the King and gather weapons to fight back. Citizens collected gunpowder from the prison Bastille.
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Adopted by the National Assembly- "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
"preserve natural rights...life, liberty, propery, security"
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Because they were in danger, Louis XVI and his family tried to escape but were sent back to Paris under Guard.
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The National Assemby declared the Church should be run by the State. Also, it sold off church lands to pay France's large debt.
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This constitution adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and created a French constitutional monarchy
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Austria and Prussia vowed to the rights of monarchy after the Legislative Assembly declared war against them.
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Due to the fear of radicalism, the Legislative Assembly gave up on the idea of limited government and created a new governing body, the National Convention.
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After the execution of the king, Jacobins set out to remove every trace of French Monarchy and nobility.
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The Jacobins voted to convict and sentence to death for treason Louis XVI.
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Members of the National Convention became afraid of Robespierre. They wanted to protect themselves and put an end on the Terror. Robespierre was arrested and guillotined.
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After the execution of Robespierre, Moderates created a bicameral legislature and a 5 person executive. The Directory controlled food prices and placed Napolean Bonaparte at the head of the French Army.
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The National Convention ratified this constitution and established the Directory.
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Napolean had established himself as the head of the government of France. Napolean overthrew the Directory when he become the Consultant.
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Agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France.
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Napolean was crowned Emperor of the French in 1804.
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The French Empire significantly defeated the Third Coalition. This was one of Napolean's greatest victories.
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A sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies.
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During the Peninsula War, France turned on its alley, Spain.
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The French invasion of Russia in 1812 was a fail for Napolean. This invasion was an attempt to force Tsar Alexander I to submit to the terms of a treaty that Napoleon had imposed.
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Napoleon was banished by the Allied governments and spent ten months on the island of Elba under the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
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A period between Emperor Napoleon's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815.
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Napolean and the forces of the French Empire were defeated by the Seventh Coalition and the Prussian Army. This defeat put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of France.
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The four European powers met to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars. They wanted to settle future boundaries, a balance of power in order to prevent imperialism and much more.
