french revolution part 2
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- Women’s March on Versailles
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Reign of Terror
- The Women's March started October 1789, they rioted over bread prices rising.  They demanded that The National Assembly take action to provide bread,, and that Louis and Marie Antoinette return to Paris. "Let them eat cake!"
- Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
- The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”
- Rise of Napoleon
- Started 1793, violent period during the french rev.. The Radicals took control of the Revolutionary Gov. and arrested and exicuted anyone whom they suspected not loyal to the revolution.
- Fall of Napoleon
- "Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine."
- Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution.  After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
- "On April 12, 1814, Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne after allied Austrian, Prussian and Russian forces vanquished his army and occupied Paris. Banished into exile on Elba, he returned less than a year later to challenge the weak Bourbon king who had replaced him."
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