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Possibilités pour la chronologie historique (en ordre al
phabétique):
L’adoption de la Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen- august 1789
La convocation des États généraux- may 1789
La fin de la Révolution française- 1799
L’exécution de Louis XVI- january 1793
L’exécution de Marie Antoinette- october 1793
La mort de Louis XIV- 1715
La mort de Louis XV- 1774
La mort de Robespierre- 1794
La prise de la Bastille- July 1789
La proclamation de la Première République- 1792
Le serment du Jeu de paume: june 1789

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La mort de Louis XIV- 1715
La mort de Louis XV- 1774
La convocation des États généraux 1789
Le serment du Jeu de paume: june 1789
La prise de la Bastille- July 1789
L’adoption de la Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen
La proclamation de la Première République- 1792
L’exécution de Louis XVI- january 1793
L’exécution de Marie Antoinette- october 1793
La mort de Robespierre- 1794
La fin de la Révolution française- 1799

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L’abolition des privilèges:

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C’est l’abolition de tous les droits et privilèges féodaux

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L’affaire du Collier

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Cardinal Rohan intended to give Marie-Antoinette a luxurious diamond necklace to regain her favour. But an imposter posing as the queen proved cleverer than the Cardinal, and who dissappeared with

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Après moi, le déluge !

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Louis XV

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l’Assemblée nationale

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The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament

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La Bastille

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medieval fortress , a French state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses. The Bastille, stormed by an armed mob of Parisians on July 14, 1789, in the opening days of the French Revolution, was a symbol of the despotism of the ruling Bourbon monarchy and held an important place in the ideology of the Revolution.; Apres le serment du Jeu de Paume les reumers circulent que le roi veut attaquer la ville; les Parisien decadent de sse defendre et cherchent des armes

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Les cahiers de doléances:

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The Cahiers de doléances were the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France

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Le calendrier républicain:

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French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt
The French Republican calendar was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 year; un effort de supprimer la religion, il ue a 12 mois de 30 jours chacun plus 5 ou 6 jour aujoutés en fin d’ané´

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“C’est une révolte ? - Non, Sire, c’est une révolution.”

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Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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La Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen:

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he Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France’s National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.

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Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie

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Le Duc d’Orléans:

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prend la responsabilité du gouvernement en assurant la régence pour Louis XV, mais il préfère poursuivre le plaisir et s’amuser,

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L’Encyclopédie:

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Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772

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Les États généraux

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In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects.

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La “Grande Peur”:

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les paysans attaquent les chateaux et massacrent les familles pour saisir tout document qui enumere les droits des seigners sur eux,

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Olympe de Gouges:

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Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women’s rights and abolitionism.

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Louis XV :

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Louis XV, known as “le Bein-Aimé”, was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France, il est parresseux et ne connaît pas la situation à Paris, fait bâtir le Petit Trianon dans le parc de Versailles, son règne été trop long, 72 ans, “Aprés moi, le déluge!”

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Louis XVI:

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Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution

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Les Lumièresz:

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The Lumières was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement beginning in the second half of the 17th century,

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Marie Antoinette:

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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution; elle est condamné sur de vaugues eccusations et elle est exécuté par la guillotine

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La Marseillaise: “

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La Marseillaise” is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, le chant de guerre pour l’armé du Rhin, compose par Rouget de Lise, devient l’hyme national de la France; son exécution marque la fin de la Terreur et de la Révolution française

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Maximilien Robespierre

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was a leader of the French Revolution best known for spearheading the Reign of Terror.; l’instagateur de la Terreur

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Mme Vigée-Lebrun:

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le peinture pour Marie Antoinette

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Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu):

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Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher, infulential thinker of the enlightenment

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Les philosophes:

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The philosophes (French for ‘philosophers’) were the intellectuals of the 18th-century European Enlightenment.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the Enlightenment, worked on Social contract

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Le Serment du jeu de paume (évenement):

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the members of the French Third Estate took the Jeu de Paume Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Palace of Versailles., le but de la fin de l’Ancien regime

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Le Serment du jeu de paume, Jacques-Louis David (tableau):

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The Tennis Court Oath is an incomplete painting by Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution.

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La Terreur:

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The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safetyl periode qui dure un an et pendant laquelle les revolutionanaires declarant que toute personne accuszeee de trahison est automatiquement coupable et condamnée à mort par la guillotine

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Le Tiers-État

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tiers état désignait le groupe social constitué des personnes qui n’appartenaient ni à la noblesse, ni au clergé.

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Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet):

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François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian, advocate of secularism

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La Guillotine:

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la machine utilisée pour l’exécution des codamnes; cetait un forme de execution démocratique, rapide, et sans douleur

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Quels sont les changements durables apportés par la Révolution française ?

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Laïcité: le gouvernement révoutionnaire a fait un grand effort de supprimer toutes les traces du passee royaliste et catholiqye du pays
Les départements: la france est divsée en départements administraifs mais le gouvernement est centralisé sur Paris
Le système metrique: il propose des unités fizes et est aujourd’hui utilisé partout dans le monde
Le drapeau tricolore: remplace le trois felurs de lis royales. Le bleu et rouge représentent Paris et le blanc représente les rois
Le marseille: le chant de guerre pour l’armé du Rhin, compose par Rouget de Lise, devient l’hyme national de la France