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| the social and political system of France |
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| 1754–93, king of France 1774–92 |
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| 1755–93, queen of France 1774–93: wife of Louis XVI. |
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| an assembly of representatives from all three estates to approve this new tax |
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| the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General |
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| The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789 |
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| In the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king |
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| was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. |
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| a refugee, usually royalist, who fled the French Revolution and took up residence in a foreign land |
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| were the radical left-wing partisans of the lower classes; typically urban laborers, which dominated France |
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| political club of the French Revolution |
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| is a well known device that was used in France |
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| was born in Arras, in the old province of Artois, France |
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| Democracy in Revolutionary France |
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