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French Revolution

revolution in France from 1789 to 1799

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The French Revolution was a period of dramatic political and social upheaval in France lasting from 1789 to 1799, during which the country's system of government was fundamentally transformed. It matters because it reshaped French society and had lasting effects on how governments and societies around the world are organized.

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Research

1,103 papers

2023 A new French revolution: Organ preservation for rectal cancer.Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique · 2024Gérard JPDOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2024.02.001
Dual-mobility cup: a new French revolution.International orthopaedics · 2017Caton JH, Ferreira ADOI: 10.1007/s00264-017-3420-7
[Interventional radiology: Therapeutic revolution].Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) · 2019Herbreteau DDOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2019.04.012
Analyse critique des méthodes de communication avec les patients allophones en soins primaires. Une revue systématique de la littérature.Sante publique (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France) · 2024Aricat A, Jego-Sablier M, Vermesch MDOI: 10.3917/spub.244.0101
Time for a French revolution.Nature · 2004DOI: 10.1038/428105a
A French revolution.The Health service journal · 1990McMahon L
Forensic psychiatry in Turkiye.ReviewInternational review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2024Balcioglu YH, Oncu F, Kennedy HGDOI: 10.1080/09540261.2023.2255255
An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved - by epidemiology.Nature · 2025Lenharo MDOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-02739-9

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: revolution
Has part: proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy
Country: France
Location: France
Image: LouisXVIExecutionBig.jpg
Significant event: coup of 18 Brumaire
Participant: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
topic's main category: Category:French Revolution
Commons category: French Revolution
start time: 1789-07-14
end time: 1799-11-09
described by source: New International Encyclopedia
point in time: 1789-05-05
history of topic: timeline of the French Revolution
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:French Revolution
different from: French Revolution
topic has template: Template:French Revolution
P8168: Sussargues
native label: Révolution française

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Encyclopedic overview

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799. Many of the revolution's ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, and its values remain central to modern French political discourse. It was caused by a combination of social, political, and economic factors which the existing regime proved unable to manage.

Financial crisis and widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789, its first meeting since 1614. The representatives of the Third Estate broke away and re-constituted themselves as a National Assembly in June. The Storming of the Bastille in Paris on 14 July led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly, including the abolition of feudalism, state control over the Catholic Church in France, and issuing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

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