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Decks in this class (30)

Week 1- Louis XVI as King and Government
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19  cards
Week 2- Social divisions
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19  cards
Week 3- Enlightened philosophes
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11  cards
Week 4- Influence of the philosophes, salons and American war of Independence
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13  cards
Week 5- Economic problems and royal finance
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16  cards
Week 6- Attempts at improvement under Turgot , Necker and Calonne
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18  cards
Week 7- The Assembly of Notables, Feb- May 1787
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10  cards
Week 8- The clash with the parlements, May 1787- May 1788
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13  cards
Week 9- The Revolt of the Nobles and promise of an Estates-General
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10  cards
Week 10- The state of France by the meeting of the Estates-General
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12  cards
Week 11- Developments in Versailles, May–July 1789
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17  cards
Week 12- Developments in Paris
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12  cards
Week 13- Developments, the Great Fear and the October Days
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18  cards
Week 14- Church reforms
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15  cards
Week 15- Political, judicial and administrative reforms; economic and social change
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34  cards
Week 16- Political clubs
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8  cards
Week 17- The king, flight to Varennes and Champ de Mars
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15  cards
Week 18- The origins and impact of war
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23  cards
Week 19- Sans culottes’ action
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25  cards
Week 20- The September massacres and elections to the National Convention
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18  cards
Week 21- New Republic, Problems and Policies
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22  cards
Week 22- The spread of War
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9  cards
Week 23- Rising in the Vendée
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6  cards
Week 24- Robespierre's attempts to establish wartime control
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7  cards
Week 25- The fall of the Girondins and the Federalist revolt
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14  cards
Week 26- The levée en masse and the coming of the Terror
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19  cards
Week 27- The spread of the Terror and Executions
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13  cards
Week 28- Influence of the sans-culottes and Robespierre
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16  cards
Week 29- Robespierre's fall and the collapse of the Terror
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6  cards
1- The Thermidorian reaction and White Terror
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15  cards

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