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Louis XVI
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Last king of France (1774–92) in the Bourbon line preceding the French Revolution.
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Marie Antionette
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Queen of Fracne adn wife of Louis XVI
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Emmanuel Sieyes
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French political theorist who won great popularity for his pamphelt What is the Third Estate?
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Edmund Burke
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British parliamentarian, orator, and political philosopher. He is regarded as the founder of conservatism.
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Thomas Paine
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English-American writer and political pampleteer. He is famous for the pamphlet Common Sense.
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Jacques-Louis David
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Famous French painter who was mainly involved in Neo-Classical paintings. He was the prominent artistic force during the French Revolution.
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Olympe de Gouges
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A self taught writer and women of the people during the French Revolution.
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Georges-Jacques Danton
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French revolutionary leader. Who was a lawyer before the revolution and became a leading voice of opposition to the Reign of Terror.
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Leading French revolutionary who headed the Committie of Public Safety. He is responsible for the Reign of Terror and was executed at the guillotine.
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Antoine Saint-Just
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French Revolutionary leader who wrote Esprit de la révolution et de la constitution de France in support of the revolution. He was a member of the committie of public safety with Robespierre and was a fanatical leader of the Reign of Terror and died at the guillotine.
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Charles Talleyrand
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French statesman and member of the clergy. He became known as the bishop of the revolution. He was appointed foreign minister three separate times.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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French general who ascended through the ranks and one numerous military victories against the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians. In a coup he was appointed first counsel effectively making him a dictator and in 1804 crowned himself emperor of France.
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Joseph Fouche
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Minister of Police. He established an effective spy system and jailed 2500 hundred French citizens as political enemies to Napoleon.
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Alexander I
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Czar of Russia who defeated Napoleon in his invasion of Russia and was part of the Fourth Coalition that deposed Napoleon.
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Arthur Wellesley
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British general who led British forces in the Penninsula War, the attack on Paris, and the battle of Waterloo.
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Louis XVIII
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Louis XVIII brother who was installed on the throne by the allies after Napoleon was desposed.
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