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Wedding of Prince Louis Capet and Marie Antoinette
Characteristics of Louis
Characteristics of Marie
Conditions in France
Coronation of Louis XVI
Age of Enlightenment
American Revolution
Life at Versailles
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Marie Antoinette / Why was she called “Madame Deficit”?
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The problem of an heir
Economic Crisis
Jacques Necker
Estates General
Maximilian Robespierre
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Tennis Court Oath
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National Assembly
The Bastille
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July 14, 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Free Press
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“L’ami du peuple” or “The Friend of the People”
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Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
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What happened on October 2, 1789?
October 5: March to Versailles
March to Paris
Tuileries (“Tweelery”) Palace
May 1791
 What was the Jacobin Club?
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Why was Robespierre called “The Incorruptible”?
Louis decides to escape
 June 21, 1791
Power Shift
 The death penalty
Dr. Joseph Guillotin
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The guillotine / “The National Razor”
Declaration of War against Austria
 April 1792
August 10, 1792
Sans-culottes
National Convention
Who was Georges Danton?
The September Massacre
Trial of King Louis XVI
 Girondins
 Jacobins
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Jan 20, 1793
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Execution of Louis XVI
Marat and the Girondins
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Who was Charlotte Corday?
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The “Legend of Marat”
Marie Antoinette jailed at La Conciergerie
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October 15
September 1793
“The Terror” / The Reign of Terror
The Committee of Public Safety
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Robespierre’s role
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Censorship
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De-Christianization
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Dealing with counter-revolutionaries
Napoleon Bonaparte
Republic of Virtue
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Danton & the Dantonistes
The Great Terror
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Cult of the Supreme Being
June 27, 1794
Robespierre taken to City Hall
Robespierre in La Conciergerie
July 27, 1794
After 5 years power was once again consolidated