FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Duke of Wellington
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Tennis Court Oath
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Detailed explanation-1: -Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of Man. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.
Detailed explanation-2: -It called for the destruction of aristocratic privileges by proclaiming an end to feudalism and to exemptions from taxation, freedom and equal rights for all “Men", and access to public office based on talent. The monarchy was restricted, and all citizens were to have the right to take part in the legislative process.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen has a preamble and 17 brief articles.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.