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Division of France
France was divided into departsment; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Behera and Zuberoa did not get their own department -
Declarations
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regime -
National Assembly
In the Jeu de Paume, ball or tennis court -
Women´s
Women´s march on Versailles, demanding bread -
Bastille Day
The beginning of the Revolution -
The National Convection
The National Convection 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 Rebespierre, 1790) -
Dominique
Dominique Garat defended the Baske "foruak" when the only law for all France was proclaimed -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI was forced to sing the Constitution an the costitutional monarchy was estabilished. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes ( "The arrest of Louis XVI and his family at Varennes" Thomas Falcom Mashall, 1854) -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason -
The wars of the Convection
The wars of the Convection (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. -
The French Republic
The French Republic was estabilished, with the symbols that endure to this day. "Marsellaise" became the national athem in 1795 -
At the time of the Directory
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)