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  • was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French ... overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French ...
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  • (March 2, 1760 – April 5, 1794) was a French journalist and politician ... Picardy. His father was lieutenant-general of the bailliage of Guise, and ...
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  • The Girondins (US: /(d)ʒɪˈrɒndɪnz/ ji-RON-dinz, zhi-, ... French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ...
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  • The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...
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  • The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...
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  • The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government ... By 1792, the Commune was dominated by those Jacobins who were not ...
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  • The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...
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  • The sans-culottes ( sɑ̃kylɔt|lang , literally "without breeches") were the common people of ...
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  • (May 6, 1758 – July 28, 1794) was one of the primary leaders of the ... Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ...
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  • The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting ... The primary natural resources are spiny lobster, conch, and other ...
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  • The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year ... The Meiji Period began with a political revolution that brought about ...
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  • The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... The Revolution was originally a popular uprising against the absolute ...
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  • The National Convention ( link=no|Convention nationale ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ...
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  • The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Morocco is an ethnically diverse country with a rich culture and civilization ...
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  • The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...
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  • Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...
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  • Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist ... While he made significant contributions to the revolutionary cause ...
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  • Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation ... Alberta's development since the eighteenth century has been based ...
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  • The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ...
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  • 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name ... Initially she led a quiet and unremarkable life as a provincial intellectual ...
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  • 9 Thermidor, Year II [July 28, 1794]), was a French revolutionary ... Saint-Just worked as a legislator and a military commissar, but he ...
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  • The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in ... With widespread fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack ...
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  • ; born Mara; May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793) was a French political ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...
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  • The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ...
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  • France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with more ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich Europe, approximately between Germany, Italy and Hungary. ...
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  • ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
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  • The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe ...
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  • Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... The nation's traditions draw on its nomadic past and are centuries ...
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  • Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ...
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  • South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...
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  • The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...
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  • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España North Africa (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign ...
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  • Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...
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  • The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция ... The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...
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  • Leningrad and Petrograd redirect here. {{Infobox Settlement ... formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991; ...
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