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sans-culottes
The sans-culottes were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancient Régime -
jacobin
A Jacobin was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution. The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. -
jacques Necker birth
Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. Necker held the finance post between July, 1777 and 1781. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacques-Necker -
jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers.
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emmanuel- joseph sieyes
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, usually known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Roman Catholic Abbé. Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, usually known as the abbé guided the National Assembly in its struggle against the monarchy and nobility.
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olympe de gouges
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. views on a number of matters, especially the role of women as citizens. Many consider her among the world’s first feminists. became active in political causes and took up social issues that ranged from road improvement.
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louis XVI birth
louis XVI was the last king before the fall of the monarchs during the French revolutionary war. louis was marred to Marie witched was an arranged mirage. Louis was the son of dauphin louis.
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Marie Antoinette birth
Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her policy of court resistance to the progress of the French revolution. she was fames for the quote, "let them eat cake"'. witch most likely not to be what she said . -
marquis de lafayette
known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Métier, Marquis de Lafayette was born in 1757.
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maximilien robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isadore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. his careful dress and grooming, and his simple manners both at Versailles and later in Paris. He quickly attracted attention in an assembly that included some distinguished names.
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Georges Danton
Georges Jacques Danton was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, in particular as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety.
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Charlotte Corday
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution.Descended from a noble family, educated in a convent at Caen, and royalist by sentiment, yet susceptible also to the ideals.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804. -
calling of the estates-general
Calling the Estates-General. The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI
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great fear
Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow -
formation of the national assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from 17 June 1789 to 30 September 1791, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives
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tennis court oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace.
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Attack on the Bastille
occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille.
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women’s march to versailles
The March on Versailles. Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris. -
flight to varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family, -
national convention is formed
The National Convention was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792 -
execution of louis xvi
The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place publicly on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution -
reign of terror
The Reign of Terror, commonly called The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions.
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the directory is formed
The Directory formed in 1795 following the end of the National Convention and the excesses of the Reign of Terror and the Committee of Public Safety. It lasted until November of 1799 when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte. -
napoleon invades russia
also known as the Russian Campaign, the Second Polish War, the Second Polish Campaign, the Patriotic War of 1812, and the War of 1812, was begun by Napoleon to force Russia back into the Continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
