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The Réveillon riots occurred between 26–29 April 1789 centered in the St. Antoine district of Paris where a factory which produced luxury wallpaper was owned by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon. The factory employed around 300 people. The riots were one of the first instances of violence during the French Revolution.
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13 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General
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Louis XVI
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this fortress was used by French kings to imprison subjects that didn't agree with them politically, making the Bastille a representation of the oppressive nature of the monarchy. This event was the start of the French Revolution and the eventual fall of the French monarchy.
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The Great Fear was a general panic that took place between 17 July and 3 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution
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The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
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armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.
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The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution
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Legislative assembly is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its branch. The name is used by a number of countries, including member-states of the Commonwealth of Nations and other countries.
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was the first government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
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Louis XVI was convicted of treason
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by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793—formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution.
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, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. ... Instead, he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress.
