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They approved a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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The NAtional Constituent Assembly
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The National Assembly voted to become the Nactional Constituent Assembly
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The frist French constitution
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Opposition by exiled nobles who conspired from abroad against the revolution, oposition by the king.
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The Legislative Assembly
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The monarchy was abolished, the Republic
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The National Convention
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Louis XVI was sentenced and guillotined
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Robespierre helped to create a more democratic constitution
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Power went to more neutral representatives who drafted the Constitution of 1795
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The Directory and the Consulate
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Napoleon Bonaparte soon rose to prominence