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Tag: French Revolution

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2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

  • 2nd December 2020
  • Tagged as: Beethoven, Empire, France, French Empire, French Revolution, Napoleon, Pope

On the 2nd December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille

  • 14th July 2020
  • Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Louis XVI, Revolution, Versailles

The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the monarchy.

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13th July 1793: Jean-Paul Marat attacked in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday

  • 13th July 2020
  • Tagged as: Assassination, France, French Revolution, Girondin, Marat, Murder, Radicalism

The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.

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21st June 1791: Louis XVI’s attempts to escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes

  • 21st June 2020
  • Tagged as: Austria, Flight to Varennes, French Revolution, Holy Roman Empire, Louis XVI, Revolution, Treason

King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.

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20th June 1789: National Assembly swears the Tennis Court Oath

  • 20th June 2020
  • Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Government, Monarchy, Politics, Republic, Revolution

On the 20th June 1789 at Versailles in France, the National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath in which they vowed not to separate until a written constitution had been established for the country.

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7th May 1794: Robespierre establishes Cult of the Supreme Being

  • 7th May 2020
  • Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Religion, Revolution, Robespierre

On the 7th May 1794, just a few weeks before the Law of 22nd Prairial that created the Great Terror, Maximilien Robespierre formally announced the creation of the Cult of the Supreme Being in a meeting of the National Convention.

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10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

  • 10th December 2019
  • Tagged as: Equator, France, French Revolution, Metric, Napoleon, Science, Standardisation, Technology

It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to town.

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16th October 1793: The Execution of Marie Antoinette

  • 16th October 2019
  • Tagged as: Death, Execution, France, French Revolution, Guillotine, Marie Antoinette

At 12.15pm on the afternoon of the 16th October 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.

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5th September 1793: The Reign of Terror begins in France

  • 5th September 2019
  • Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Guillotine, Revolution, Robespierre, Terror

The Reign of Terror began in France when Bertrand Barère, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, made a speech in favour of it that ended with the exclamation, “Let’s make terror the order of the day!”

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26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

  • 26th August 2019
  • Tagged as: France, French Revolution, National Constituent Assembly, Rights of Man

The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

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