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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 17, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
October 22, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
June 14, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
October 25, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 20, 2007.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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Section size for French Revolution (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,532	3,532
Causes	3,065	3,065
Crisis of the Ancien Régime	235	8,935
Financial and political crisis	4,001	4,001
Estates-General of 1789	4,699	4,699
Constitutional monarchy (July 1789 – September 1792)	61	22,700
Abolition of the Ancien Régime	4,296	4,296
Creating a new constitution	3,495	3,495
The Revolution and the Church	3,376	3,376
Political divisions	3,523	3,523
Varennes and after	3,165	3,165
Fall of the monarchy	4,784	4,784
First Republic (1792–1795)	35	19,359
Proclamation of the First Republic	3,645	3,645
Political crisis and fall of the Girondins	4,258	4,258
Reign of Terror	7,743	7,743
Thermidorian reaction	3,678	3,678
The Directory (1795–1799)	5,579	5,579
Role of ideology	4,412	4,412
French Revolutionary Wars	5,435	5,435
Slavery and the colonies	5,981	5,981
Media and symbolism	71	6,792
Newspapers	1,808	1,808
Revolutionary symbols	613	4,913
La Marseillaise	1,739	1,739
Guillotine	1,445	1,445
Cockade, tricolore, and liberty cap	1,116	1,116
Role of women	2,241	3,477
Prominent women	1,236	1,236
Economic policies	1,891	1,891
Impact	928	14,194
France	4,383	4,383
Europe outside France	6,599	6,599
North America	2,284	2,284
Historiography	4,963	4,963
See also	486	486
Notes	26	26
References	35	27,695
Sources	27,660	27,660
Further reading	11,199	11,199
External links	2,940	2,940
Total	152,661	152,661

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