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On October 1789, women's march on Versailles, demanding bread..
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On june 1789, National Assembly in the Jeu de Paume ball ot tennis court (Jacques - Louis David, 1791
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On 26 August 1789, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, abolition of the Ancien Regime.
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On 14 July 1789, Bastille Day, the beginning of the Revolution (Jean-Pierre Houël, 1789).
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On September 1792, the French Republic was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1795.
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Dominique Garat defended the Basque foruak when the only law for all France was proclaimed.
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1790, France was divided into departments; Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea and Zuberoa did not get their own department.
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On September 1791, Louis XVI was forced to sign the Constitution and the constitutional monarchy was established. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes (The arrest of Louis XVI and his family at Varennes, Thomas Falcon Mashall, 1854).
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The National Convention began in 1791. It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictatorship (Maximilien Robespierre, 1790).
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1791, Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
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The Wars of the Convention (1793-1795) shook Europe. On the left, Battle of Fleurus, Belgium (Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1837). On the right, the victory of Baztan. In fact, the French troops conquered the south of the Basque Country.
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On January 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason.
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At the time of the Directory (1795-1799), Napoleon, fighting against the European powers, invaded Italy and Egypt (The Battle of the Pyramids, Francois-Louis-Joseph Watteau, 1798-1799).