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FRENCH REVOLUTION

By I.Z.A.R.O:)

  • June 1789

    June 1789
    On June 1789, National Assembly in the Jeu de Paume, ball or tennis court ( Jacques-Louis David, 1791.

  • October 1789

    October 1789
    On October 1789, womens march on Versailles, demanding bread.

  • July 1789

    July 1789
    On 14 July 1789, Bastille Day, the beginning of the Revolution ( Jean-Pîerre Houël, 1789).

  • August 1789

    August 1789
    On 26 August 1789, Declaration of the rights of Man and the citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regime.

  • 1790

    1790
    The National Convention began in 1791. It grew more radical over time. That period was know as the Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximilien Robespierre, 1790).

  • 1790

    1790
    1790, France was divided into departments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Behera and Zuberoa did not get their own department.

  • September 1791

    September 1791
    On september 1791, Louis XVI was forced to sign the COnstitution and the constutional monarchy was established. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Verennes (The arrest os Louis XVI and his family at Varennes, Thomas Falcon Mashall, 1854).

  • 1791

    1791
    1791, Dominique Garat defended the Basque foruak when the only law for all France was proclaimed.

  • 1791

    1791
    1891, Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.

  • September 1792

    September 1792
    On September 1792, the French Republic was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillase became the national anthem in 1795.

  • January 1793

    January 1793
    January 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason.

  • (1793-1795)

    (1793-1795)
    The wars of the Convention (1793-1795) shook Europe. On the left, Battle of Fleurus, Belgium (Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the victory of Baztan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque country.

  • (1795-1799)

    (1795-1799)
    At the time of the Directory (1795-1799), Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The battle of the Pyramids, Francois-Louis-Joseph Watteau, 1798-1799).