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    with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas...
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    the history of France, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, extends from the French Revolution's...
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    in southeastern France. Trans-en-Provence is famous among the ufologists as the site of an alleged UFO incident called the "Trans-en-Provence Case". The...
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    further increased its influence during the reign of Louis XIV. The French Revolution of 1789 overthrew the Ancien Régime and produced the Declaration of the...
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    Evolução da Banda das Três Ordens Militares (1789–1826)" [The Evolution of the Band of the Three Military Orders (1789–1826)]. Lusíada História (in Portuguese)...
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    Pinoteau, Hervé (1992). "Les trois couleurs en 1789". Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France. 1990 (1): 42–44. doi:10.3406/bsnaf.1992...
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    Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located...
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    Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often...
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    The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris) during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de...
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    active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution. For most of its history the National Guard, particularly...
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    division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789. The provinces (French pronunciation: [pʁɔvɛ̃s] ) continued to exist administratively...
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    Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the...
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    religion in France. During the pre-1789 Ancien Régime, France was traditionally considered the Church's eldest daughter, and the King of France always maintained...
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    proposals for redefining the French state were floated, particularly in the days after the remarkable sessions of 4–5 August 1789 and the abolition of feudalism...
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    justice between 1560 and 1789. Rennes had also been the administrative capital of the Intendant of Brittany between 1689 and 1789, and Intendances were the...
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    Yvelines (category Departments of Île-de-France)
    residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Yvelines' subprefectures are Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Mantes-la-Jolie...
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    October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging to her image among French citizens...
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  • Louvre, second royal palace of France, from 1364 until 1789; now the Louvre Museum Palais du Luxembourg, home of the French Senate Palais Royal, originally...
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    Estates General of 1789. Discontent among the members of France's middle and lower classes resulted in strengthened opposition to the French aristocracy and...
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    and districts in late 1789. The process began on 4 August 1789 with the elimination of provincial privileges, and a 22 December 1789 decree (with letters...
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    French tricolor cockade was devised at the beginning of the French Revolution. On 12 July 1789 – two days before the storming of the Bastille – the revolutionary...
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  • Révolte des deux sous [fr] in Lyon 1788: Day of the Tiles in Grenoble 1789–1799: French Revolution, a revolution that overthrew the monarchy, established...
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    Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870), soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic Wars, painter of battles. The brilliance of Beaumont-en-Auge; vintage and...
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    in front of the President of France, along with other French officials and foreign guests. In 1789, tensions rose in France between reformist and conservative...
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    facto capital of the Kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789, before becoming the cradle of the French Revolution. After having lost its...
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  • restaurants, etc. The history of organized crime in France can be traced to the French Revolution (1789 to 1799). It is however with the turn of the 20th...
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    the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen from 1789 and establishes France as a secular and democratic country, deriving its sovereignty...
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    1830 Spencer, Erika Hope. "Research Guides: France: Women in the Revolution: Revolutions in France: 1789, 1830, 1848". guides.loc.gov. Retrieved 22 September...
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    Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau discussed homosexuality in his Erotika Biblion. In 1789, François-Rolland Elluin engraved an image of God's wrath against the homosexuals...
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    Charles IV of Spain (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    west coast of Vancouver Island in 1789 could have blown up into a major conflict. Spain could have drawn on its French ally in support against Britain but...
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