Facts about French Revolution

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   Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791, demanding equal political rights for women.

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   Revolutionary France replaced the traditional Christian calendar with the French Republican Calendar in 1793, featuring ten-day weeks called décades.

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   Storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became the iconic opening act of the French Revolution, though the fortress held only seven prisoners at the time.

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   A major cause of the French Revolution was France's severe financial crisis, partly worsened by its costly involvement in the American Revolutionary War.

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   During the French Revolution, the radical phase known as the Reign of Terror resulted in thousands of executions by guillotine between 1793 and 1794.

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   The French Revolution began in 1789 and led to the abolition of the French monarchy and the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793.

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