Why the French Revolution happened

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1. Why the French Revolution happened
2. What the revolution changed, and what it teaches
3. Daily life under the Ancien Regime
4. Enlightenment ideas and the American example
5. 1789: from a meeting to a revolution
6. Stages of the revolution, 1789 to 1799
7. Economic legacies of the revolution, in Kenya and the world
8. Designing best practices from the revolution