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Louis XVI summoned the Estates General due to increased political dissent by mainly the third estate -
A time of political and societal change in France over 10 years
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King Louis locked them out of their meeting hall, so they met on the Versailles Palace tennis court and they wouldn't stop meeting until France had a constitution -
A mob of angry French citizens and soldiers attacked the Bastille, which inspired other revolutionary movements in France for social and political reforms. -
A wave of panic over the French countryside where peasants and townspeople attacked manorial houses. -
Stated how every man is born with natural rights, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. -
He wouldn't give up his royal power for the revolutionary government so he was guillotined because of treason -
Public executions and thousands of mass killings of counter-revolutionary 'suspects', which was organized by the Committee of Public Safety. -
Public executions and thousands of mass killings of counter-revolutionary 'suspects', which was organized by the Committee of Public Safety.
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Overthrew the directory in France, which made way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. It's viewed as the end of the French Revolution. -
He crowned himself emperor of the French, but his reign ended after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
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A political meeting to redraw the borders of European nations after the Napoleonic Wars -
It marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars after Napoleon's French army lost the battle