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Birth of King Louis XVI
Versailles Palace in Versailles, France
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Birth of Maximilien de Robespierre
Arras, France
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Birth of George Danton
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Revolution
Hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France
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Economic hardship
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Located in Paris
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Representative Government vs. Authoritarianism
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Danton became president
Became president of the "Cordeliers" club, along with Marat and Camille Desmoulins.
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Rise of Robespierre
He came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal organ of the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror.
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Execution of King Louis
The National Constituent Assembly made Louis XVI into a constitutional monarch, but more radical factions pushed successfully for his trial and, on Jan. 21, 1793, his execution.
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Creation of new laws
Creation and extension of new civil rights:
- equality before the law
- careers open to talent
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The Enlightment
Impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu’s Spirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in Rousseau’s Social Contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the Literary Underground of “Grub Street;” the broadening influence of public opinion.
