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Meeting with the Estates-General
It was a meeting of the three estates of pre revolutionary France. It was summoned by King Louis XVI to deal with financial and societal crises. -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
It was a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
It was an expression of universal human rights, those rights that are true at all times in all places. -
Women's March on Versailles
It was a march in which the women of France rallied together against King Louis and the despised Marie Antoinette.