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  2. Reign of Terror - Wikipedia

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    The Reign of Terror(French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolutionwhen, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacresand numerous public executionstook place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlericalsentiment, and accusations of treasonby the Committee of Public Safety.

  3. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The development of video game consoles primarily follows the history of video gaming in the North American and Japanese markets. Few other markets saw any significant console development on their own, such as in Europe where personal computers tended to be favored alongside imports of video game consoles.

  4. Drownings at Nantes - Wikipedia

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    Nantes, in particular, was besieged by the tragedies of the French civil war in the Vendée at its doorstep. Threats of epidemics and starvation were always present. Battles, skirmishes, and police actions led to the incarceration of more than ten thousand prisoners of war within its confines, and simply feeding them became enormous burden for ...

  5. First White Terror - Wikipedia

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    Barbey d'Aurevilly; Bainville; Barrès; Barruel; de Benoist; Blanc de Saint-Bonnet; Bloy; de Bonald; Boutang; Bruckner; Brunetière; Carrel; Cau; de Chateaubriand; Daudet

  6. Revolutionary Tribunal - Wikipedia

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    The Tribunal, from La Démagogie en 1793 à Paris by Dauban (H. Plon; 1868) The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal) [1] was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. In October 1793, it became one of the most powerful ...

  7. Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kɑ̃tɛ̃ fukje tɛ̃vil], 10 June 1746 – 7 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine[ 1 ] was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Revolution and Reign of ...

  8. Fall of Maximilien Robespierre - Wikipedia

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    The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre 's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor (28 July). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of ...

  9. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...