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The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
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Beneath the streets of Paris, France, are the bones of more than 6 million people in what's known as the Paris Catacombs.
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte seized control of the French government in a matter of days.
In the wake of the French Revolution, a young Napoleon Bonaparte begins a meteoric rise to power.
King Louis XVI and the French nobility face a revolution of the Third Estate.
