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NATIONAL AND CONSTITUENT ASSAMBLY
Was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie-Antoinette, were executed. -
Declaration of the rights
declaration of the rights of man and of citizen.
Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man. -
Constitution
In the summer of 1789, the French National Assembly began the process of drafting a constitution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, adopted August 26, 1789 eventually became the preamble of the constitution adopted in September 3, 1791.
The Constitution followed the lines preferred among reformists at that time: the creation of a French constitutional monarchy. The main controversy was the level of power to be granted to the king of France in such a system. -
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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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. It is also used by their sub-national divisions, such as the Indian States, Australian States and Canadian provinces. -
Proclamation of the republic
proclamation of the republic.
The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire in 1804 under Napoleon, although the form of the government changed several times. This period was characterized by the fall of the monarchy, the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror, the Thermidorian Reaction and the founding of the Directory, and, finally, the creation of the Consulate and Napoleon's rise to power. -
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GIRONDIN CONVENTION
La Convention girondine (21 septembre 1792 - 2 juin 1793) est la première période de l'histoire de la Convention nationale dominée par les Girondins. Elle fut marquée par la violente rivalité entre les girondins et les montagnards, exacerbée après la proclamation de la République (21 septembre 1792), par le procès de Louis XVI -
Execution of Louis XVI
the execution of Louis XVI.
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. The National Convention had convicted the king in a near-unanimous votE and condemned him to death by a simple majority. -
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JACOBIN CONVETION
Initially founded in 1789 by anti-royalist from Brittany, the club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more.[1] The Jacobin Club was heterogeneous and included both prominent parliamentary factions of the early 1790s, the Mountain and the Girondins. In 1792–1793, the Girondins were more prominent in leading France, the period when war was declared on Austria and Prussia, the monarchy was overthrown and the Republic created. -
Fall of Robespierre
n July 1794, the month of Thermidor in Year II in the revolutionary calendar, Maximilien Robespierre‘s grip on the revolution came to an abrupt and violent end. As befitted his time in power, Robespierre was brought undone by a conspiracy among his fellow politicians. In June and July, a clique of deputies in the National Convention mobilised against the lawyer from Arras. Their alliance was neither ideological or factional. -
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DIRECTORY
After the arrest and execution of Robespierre in July 28, 1794, the Jacobin club was closed, and the surviving Girondins were reinstated. A year later, the National Convention adopted the Constitution of the Year III. They reestablished freedom of worship, began releasing large numbers of prisoners, and most importantly, initiated elections for a new legislative body. On 3 November 1795, the Directory was established -
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Babeuf arrested
Babeuf was arrested.
François-Noël Babeuf (23 November 1760 Saint-Quentin, Aisne - 27 May 1797 Vendôme), known as Gracchus Babeuf (in tribute to the Roman reformers, the Gracchi, and used alongside his self-designation as Tribune), was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period. -
Repression of royalists
To coordinate these uprisings, the royalist faction in France reorganized itself after the failure of 18 Fructidor Year V. Its new leaders were called the "Souabe Branch". They included General Amédé Willot, who had escaped from French Guiana; General Louis François Perrin de Précy, the former leader of the counter-revolutionaries in Lyon in 1793; and two former deputies, Antoine Balthazar Joachim Dandré (or d'André) and Jacques Imbert-Colomès. -
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Napoleonic empire
The Napoleonic Empire, also known as the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte or First French Empire, began in 1799 by a military coup, to take power in France. Shortly afterwards, the Consulate was established, and he became First Consul. In 1802, he was proclaimed Consul for life and, two years later, Emperor of the French. -
Napoleon´s cup
In november 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte carried out a coup détat. A consulate was created in wich authorithy was supposed to be shared between three consuls, but in fact, Napoleon was now the ruler of France
