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1. Document B Document A In this engraving, titled "The Awakening of the Third Estate," an aristocrat and clergyman are horrified to see a man casting off the shackles of his class. Theorist Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes wrote that "Nothing can succeed without [the Third Estate]." The chaos surrounding the fall of the Bastille resulted in bloody death and the desecration of the 14th-century fortress.

2. Document C Document D When Parisian women marched to Versailles, they wanted two things: bread and Marie Antoinette's head. They triumphantly returned with flour and the entire royal family. A colored engraving shows the runaway royal family busted by French democrats. Large Louis and extravagant Marie Antoinette were apprehended in Varennes, just miles from the Austrian border. Some say the strong scent of the queen's perfume gave their whereabouts away.

3. Document E Document F This oil on canvas painting illustrates a scene from the Battle of Cholet, a skirmish that took place during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793. The guillotine is named for Dr. Joseph IgnaceGuillotin, who endeavored to commission a device that would deliver a swift and honorable death to people of all classes. Before the French Revolution, only nobles were executed by decapitation -- other lower-class capital criminals were subjected to burning, drowning and maiming.

4. Document G Document H Napoleon Bonaparte, the answer to France's monarchical and Republican woes. Edmund-Burke, Radical Arms, The conclusion of the French Revolution