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Festival of Reason in Notre–Dame. November 10, 1793

Festival of the Supreme Being. June 8, 1794

Final defeats of the rebel Chouans and Vendéens. October 14, 1799

First appearance of Jean–Paul Marat’s L’Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People), an eight–page daily newspaper–pamphlet, one of the most influential and radical publications of the Revolution. September 12, 1789

First Maximum decreed. May 4, 1793

First session of the new Legislative Assembly under the Constitution of 1791. October 1, 1791

First Treaty of Paris: France is reduced to its 1792 frontiers. May 30, 1814

First use of the guillotine. April 25, 1792

Food riots in Paris. February 21, 1793

Foulon de Doué and Bertier de Sauvigny are murdered in Paris. July 22, 1789