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The deputies of the Third Estate meet on the Jeu de Paume and indoor tennis court. In the modest surroundings they took a historic pledge not to destroy until a new French constitution has been adopted.
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Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and demolish the Bastille. The Bastille is a royal castle that had come to illustrate the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.
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The French Revolution was a watershed event with the ascent of Napoleons Bonaparte.
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The Estates General had no jurisdiction or congressional power, its act was to encourage or support the King.
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The Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 until the fall of Robespierre in 1794. The purpose of the Reign of Terror was to evacuate France from enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from external invaders.
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Napoleon was a French military leader and emperor who crushed most of Europe in the early 19th century. In 1804 he crowned himself emperor.
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The Congress of Vienna was assembled in 1815 by the four European powers which had defeated Napoleon.
