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A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille.
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Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. Claimed equal rights for men and access to public office based on talent, not status.
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A period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire.
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It was a meeting that opened at Versailles to discuss political and economic reforms; cash problems, need of taxes, each estate had 1 vote, the third estate wanted each deputy to have a vote.
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There had been a rumor that the king had been planning a military coup against the national Assembly. The people decided to defend their city and marched to the Bastille prison for gunpowder. The governor of the prison refused them, so they fought until the prison surrendered.
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An angry mob of Parisian women stormed through Versailles demanding Louis XVI to end the nationwide food shortage and that the royal family return to Paris with them.
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A failed attempt by King Louis XVI to get out of France with his family and get to Austria to start a counter revolution.
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The brother of Queen Marie Antoinette invaded France to restore Marie and Louis to power.
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Louis's imprisonment was followed by the September massacres. Wild stories seized the city that imprisoned counter-revolutionary aristocrats/priests were plotting with the allied invaders. As a result, angry crowds invaded the prisons of Paris and summarily slaughtered half the men and women they found.
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The Mountains voted and beheaded King Louis XVI using the guillotine in order to start a revolution in France.
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During the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty" peasants and persons who opposed the sans cullotes were killed.
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A coup d'etat, sudden overthrow of the gov't, led by the powerful military general, Napolean Bonaparte, toppled the Directory and Napolean seized power.
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Britain's Admiral Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish navies. Nelson was killed but invasion of Britain now became impossible.
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Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.
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He was exiled to Elba after the invasion of Russia failed.
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After falling at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to a barren island in the South Atlantic so he could not escape, there is where he died.