French Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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FRENCH REVOLUTION political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789. Origins of the Revolution...measures. The direct cause of the Revolution was...the feudal structure of France. Shortly afterward...circulated, and on Oct. 5, 1789, a Parisian crowd, aroused...lands were nationalized (1789), religious orders suppressed...out, especially in W France; and Louis XVI, though...Revolutionary Tribunal. Known to history as the Reign of Terror...military reverses. In 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte, the...Terror (2006). On the historiography of the French Revolution...