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Potluck
100
Its first provision reads "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good."
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 1789)
100
On the day the Bastille fell, his only diary entry was 'rien'.
Louis XVI
100
Seat of the Absolutist Monarchy in 1789, and location of the meeting of the Estates General.
Versailles
100
14 July 1789
Storming of the Bastille
100
This was not abolished until 1981, and its last use was in 1977
Guillotine
200
Abolished privilege and 'feudalism' in France
August Decrees (August 1789)
200
Penned "Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État?"
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
200
This region in north-western France was the site of a major rebellion beginning in 1793
Vendée
200
20 June 1789
The Tennis Court Oath
200
This emblem of the Revolution combines the colors of the King with those of Paris
The French flag
300
Provided for the election of Bishops, and made clergy into oath-bound salaried state employees
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790)
300
A small, neurotic lawyer from Arras, obsessed with 'virtue'
Robespierre
300
The French National Anthem is named after this city
Marseilles
300
10 August 1792
Fall of the Monarchy
300
Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798-1800 resulted in the discovery of this, which allowed scholars to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphs for the first time
Rosetta Stone
400
Vastly expanded the definition of treason, and laid the legal groundwork for the Terror
The Law of Suspects (1793)
400
One of the framers of the Terror, he was beheaded when he called for its end.
Georges Danton
400
Capital was Cap‑Français
Saint-Domingue
400
21 January 1793
Execution of Louis XVI
400
Napoleon's nephew, the first President of France (1848-51), and founder of the Second French Empire (1851-70)
Napoleon III
500
Fixed prices for many basic goods
The Law of the Maximum (September 1793)
500
Marie Antoinette
500
Royal palace in Paris, stormed by the crowd in August 1792 when the monarchy was overthrown
Tuileries
500
July 27-28 1794
Fall of Robespierre and his pals
500
France has had this many Republics
Five