French Revolution

  • They approved a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

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    The NAtional Constituent Assembly

  • The National Assembly voted to become the Nactional Constituent Assembly

  • The frist French constitution

  • Opposition by exiled nobles who conspired from abroad against the revolution, oposition by the king.

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    The Legislative Assembly

  • The monarchy was abolished, the Republic

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    The National Convention

  • Louis XVI was sentenced and guillotined

  • Robespierre helped to create a more democratic constitution

  • Power went to more neutral representatives who drafted the Constitution of 1795

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    The Directory and the Consulate

  • Napoleon Bonaparte soon rose to prominence