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French Revolution
Ten years that ended a monarchy and remade a nation, 1789–1799.
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Ideas
The words and ideas the Revolution fought over.
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Third Estate
Everyone who was neither priest nor noble, and who in 1789 claimed to be the nation
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Ancien Régime
The name the Revolution gave to the France it swept away