• Gauville, député de l'ordre de la noblesse, aux Etats-généraux depuis le 4 mars 1789 jusqu'au 1er juillet 1790. p. 20. Wright, Edmund, ed. (2006). The Desk...
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    political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation...
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    Storming of the Bastille (category 1789 events of the French Revolution)
    de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the...
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    same Champ de Mars, he played a prominent ceremonial role during the first Fête de la Fédération (14 July 1790), in memory of the 1789 Storming of the...
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    assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September...
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    as well as national unity. It commemorated the revolution and events of 1789 which had culminated in a new form of national government, a constitutional...
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    Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after the storming of...
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    returning to France, Lafayette became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830 and continues to be celebrated as a hero...
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    3 mars 1855, page 265. The Canada Gazette, 3 mars 1855, page 263 ; The Canada Gazette, 10 mars 1855, pages 293–294 ; The Canada Gazette, 17 mars 1855...
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    National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération...
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    support for fiscal reforms, the Minister of Finance, Brienne, sets May 5, 1789, for a meeting of the Estates General, an assembly of the nobility, clergy...
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    HMS Mars was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 October 1794 at Deptford Dockyard. In the early part of the French...
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    He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Born...
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  • planets are very rare: the last triple conjunctions between Mars and Jupiter occurred in 1789–1790, in 1836–1837 and in 1979–1980. The next events of this...
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  • commencement de l’année 1788 et je suis resté jusqu’à la fin de l’année. En mars 1789, je suis revenu en France et depuis cette époque je n’ai pas été en Angleterre...
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    Kornmann – 1789 Plaidoyer prononcé à la Tournelle-criminelle, le jeudi 19 mars 1789, par le sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du sieur Kornmann– 1789 Publications...
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    National Guard (France) (category Military units and formations established in 1789)
    reserve force, active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution. For most of its history the National Guard...
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    of the Ancien Régime. This led to the convening of the Estates-General of 1789. Discontent among the members of France's middle and lower classes resulted...
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    for 34 years in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, in four successive French prisons, including the Bastille. When he died...
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    Nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1815. Vol. 34. Paulin. p. 47. Campardon, Emile (1862). Histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris: 10 mars 1793 – 31 mai...
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    king had concentrated in Paris in July 1789, a move which led to the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Besenval showed incompetence in the crisis...
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    cockade, introduced in July 1789, and the Phrygian cap, introduced in May 1790. A red flag was raised over the Champ-de-Mars in Paris on July 17, 1791,...
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    beetle Eupatorus birmanicus – Rabbit beetle Megasoma Kirby, 1825 Megasoma mars - Mars beetle Megasoma elephas - Elephant beetle Megasoma actaeon - Actaeon...
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    a French singer. She is well known for her roles in musicals, including 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille in the role of Olympe, and La Légende du roi Arthur...
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    the legal revolution of summer 1789; he no longer rejected the abolition of orders, as in his Declaration of June 23, 1789, and he accepted civil equality...
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    resentful of the French monarchy, and supported the French Revolution in 1789 while serving in the French army, trying to spread its ideals to his native...
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  • James Young (15 November 1717 – 24 January 1789) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven...
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  • shuttles, a permanent space station, lunar bases, and a human mission to Mars. Only a scaled-back space shuttle was approved, and NASA's funding leveled...
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    create a new calendar marking the "era of Liberty", beginning on 14 July 1789, the date of the Storming of the Bastille. However, on 2 January 1792 its...
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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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