French Revolution, French History
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French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.
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Consulate
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Georges Jacques Danton
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Denis Diderot
Directory
EmigrE
EncyclopEdie
Enlightenment
enragEs
farming, in taxation
Feuillants
France
French Revolutionary Wars
Fructidor
Girondists
FranCois Guizot
Alexander Hamilton
Jacques RenE HEbert
Jacobins
Jean JaurEs
Thomas Jefferson
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Georges Lefebvre
Etienne Charles LomEnie de Brienne
Louis XV, king of France
Louis XVI, king of France
Jean Paul Marat
Marie Antoinette
Albert Mathiez
Jules Michelet
Mountain, the
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la BrEde et de
Napoleon I
Jacques Necker
Paris, city, France
parlement
physiocrats
Pius VI
Plain, the
Poland, partitions of
Edgar Quinet
Reign of Terror
Restoration, in French history
Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Emmanuel Joseph SieyEs
Albert Sorel
States-General
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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Tuileries
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
VendEe
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Vienna, Congress of
FranCois Marie Arouet de Voltaire