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The French Revolution (1789- 1799) saw years of violence after the overthrow of France's ruling aristocracy led to the establishment of a republic. Abolitionists were widely viewed as being as ...

leading to the French Revolution, beginning in Paris on May 5th, 1789, and lasting for over a decade and ending on November 9, 1799. Paris also had a hand in both World Wars. First, It was the ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into ... In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte, who had seized power in France in 1799, sought to restore slavery to the West Indies through ...

By 1789 France was broke ... ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system ...