French Revolution

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The French Revolution was a late-18th-century upheaval in France that overthrew the monarchy, radically restructured society, and profoundly influenced modern politics, law, and concepts of citizenship and human rights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event
political revolution
revolution
social revolution
cause American Revolution influence
financial crisis of the French monarchy
heavy taxation of the Third Estate
influence of Enlightenment ideas
social inequality under the Ancien Régime
widespread famine and bread shortages
characterizedBy mass political participation
radical social change
violence and political purges
conflict French Revolutionary Wars
country France
endDate 1799-11-09
endEvent Coup of 18 Brumaire
followedBy First French Empire
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic era
ideology liberalism
popular sovereignty
republicanism
influenced Haitian Revolution
Latin American wars of independence
modern concepts of citizenship
modern human rights discourse
subsequent European revolutions
introduced metric system in France
universal male conscription in France
universal male suffrage during the National Convention
keyDocument French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
surface form: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

French Constitution of 1791
French Constitution of 1793
French Constitution of 1795
keyEvent Abolition of feudalism
Coup of 18 Brumaire
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
surface form: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Execution of Louis XVI
Flight to Varennes
Reign of Terror
September Massacres
Bastille Day
surface form: Storming of the Bastille

Storming of the Tuileries Palace
The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished)
surface form: Tennis Court Oath

Thermidorian Reaction
Women’s March on Versailles
legislativeBody Directory
Legislative Assembly
National Assembly of France
surface form: National Assembly

National Constituent Assembly
National Convention
location French provinces
Paris
Versailles
majorFaction Feuillants
Girondins
Jacobin Club
surface form: Jacobins

Montagnards
notableLeader Camille Desmoulins
Georges Danton
Jean-Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
opposedMonarch Louis XVI of France
Marie Antoinette
overthrew Ancien Régime
surface form: French monarchy

absolute monarchy in France
period late 18th century
precededBy Ancien Régime
religiousPolicy Civil Constitution of the Clergy
dechristianization campaign
result abolition of feudal privileges
codification of laws influencing the Napoleonic Code
end of the Ancien Régime
establishment of a republic in France
expansion of political rights for citizens
rise of secularism in France
spread of nationalism in Europe
slogan Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
startDate 1789-05-05
startEvent Estates-General of 1789
convening of the Estates-General

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Coup of 18 Fructidor partOf French Revolution
The Incorruptible movement French Revolution
subject surface form: Maximilien Robespierre
Charles James Fox supported French Revolution
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Isère department createdDuring French Revolution
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Parisian sans-culottes activeIn French Revolution
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Law of Suspects appliesToPeriod French Revolution
Law of 22 Prairial partOf French Revolution
Camille participatedIn French Revolution
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editing the newspaper Le Vieux Cordelier historicalPeriod French Revolution
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Le Vieux Cordelier mainSubject French Revolution
Le Vieux Cordelier historicalPeriod French Revolution
Errancis Cemetery, Paris historicalPeriod French Revolution
subject surface form: Errancis Cemetery
Second Estate declinePeriod French Revolution
Second Estate lostPrivilegesDuring French Revolution
Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII partOf French Revolution
Louise Sébastienne Gély associatedWith French Revolution
Revolutionary Tribunal historicalPeriod French Revolution
Jean-Baptiste Drouet participatedIn French Revolution
Desmoulins movement French Revolution
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The Mountain activeInPeriod French Revolution
Paris Commune (1792) partOf French Revolution
Salle du Manège usedDuring French Revolution
August Decrees of 1789 significantEvent French Revolution
August Decrees of 1789 timePeriod French Revolution
La Force prison operatedDuring French Revolution
English College, Douai closedDuring French Revolution
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French royal academies dissolutionOrReform French Revolution
French Aerostatic Corps era French Revolution
royal veto of Louis XVI historicalPeriod French Revolution
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story portrays French Revolution
this entity surface form: French Revolutionary era
Orne createdDuring French Revolution
Comte influencedBy French Revolution
subject surface form: Auguste Comte
First Estate abolishedIn French Revolution
Coup of 22 Floréal Year VI locatedInPeriod French Revolution
Patriot forces of Quito influencedBy French Revolution
White Terror against former Jacobins partOf French Revolution
Vendée uprising conflictIn French Revolution
Théâtre Feydeau historicalContext French Revolution
Errancis Cemetery usedDuring French Revolution
Salpêtrière prison historicalPeriod French Revolution
Salpêtrière prison associatedWithEvent French Revolution
Paul Grenier era French Revolution
this entity surface form: French Revolutionary era
El siglo de las luces setting French Revolution