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The third state created a national assembly to face the unfair voting system, it was established on a tennis court. (People of the other two classes could participate too, but it was mainly the third state).
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The king locked the third state out of their meeting place (Salon des Menus Plairsirs), the Tennis Court Oath, which had been built in 1686 to use the Palace of Versailles. Their vow "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" -
This document established equality, liberty fraternity and respect among all French citizens (obviously men).
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A mass of angry french (mostly Parisian or surroundings) women, created a protest onto Versailles.
They basically forced king Louis 16th to say on the Palace of the Tulleries. -
The Declaration is a text written by the French writer Olympe de Gouges12 paraphrasing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
France was ruled by a constitutional monarchy.
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Royal family trying to escape to Austria were caught in Varennes and had to go back to Paris.
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Louis 16th was accused of treason.
He was found guilty and died that same day executed on the guillotine. -
The government taken over by Robespierre as a leader had an extreme way of thinking and killed people who were "anti-revolutionary"
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Like her husband, she was found guilty of treason and was taken to the guillotine. -
France started a new government, the Directory.
They had five directors along assemblies lead the country. -
He led a coup and adopted a new type of government, based by a Roman one, called the Consulate -
France was directed by three consuls.
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Napoleon named himself the emperor of France and left his family commanding territories all over Europe.
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Napoleon declared himself emperor of France and he or his family ruled all its territories.
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This code lead forward to new legal concepts.
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Spanish created a dispute against the king.
This finished with Spanish independence. -
Napoleon was defeated in The Waterloo battle and sent to a remote island, where he died days later. -
Monarchy comes back after Napoleon is deprecated.