FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Council of Trent
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Thirty Years’ War
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Reign of Terror
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Paris Peace Conference
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Detailed explanation-1: -A popular insurgency culminated on July 14 when rioters stormed the Bastille fortress in an attempt to secure gunpowder and weapons; many consider this event, now commemorated in France as a national holiday, as the start of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur) 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 Safety.
Detailed explanation-3: -Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17, 000 enemies of the Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The siege of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 led to the France revolution. It ended with Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.