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French Revolution
In 1789, the French people rose up against the ruling monarchy in one of the most critical revolutions of the modern era.
The recently invented guillotine, used to behead Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, became the symbol of this popular – and bloody – an uprising that installed a republican political system in France headed by the emperor Napoleon.