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It was the former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV -
The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682. By moving his court and government to Versailles, Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris -
Louis XVI was 15 years old when he married Marie Antoinette on May 16, 1770. Marie Antoinette was 14 years old at the time. -
he French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval that lasted from 1789 to 1799. It was a response to economic hardship, corruption, and inequality in France -
It was a vow made by representatives of the Third Estate to not separate until a constitution was established for France. The oath was taken in the Real Tennis Room in Versailles, France. -
the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming and was already scheduled for demolition but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles -
The crowd besieged the palace and, in a dramatic and violent confrontation, they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI. The next day, the crowd forced the king and his family to return with them to Paris -
His trial was a momentous event in British history. He was found guilty of treason - a 'tyrant, traitor, murderer and Public Enemy'. -
The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 -
Napoleon engineered the Coup of 18 Brumaire against the Directory, and became First Consul of the Republic. He won the Battle of Marengo in 1800, which secured France's victory in the War of the Second Coalition, and in 1803 sold the territory of Louisiana to the United States. -
French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America -
he became Emperor of the French under the name of Napoleon I, and was the architect of France's recovery following the Revolution before setting out to conquer Europe, which led to his downfall. -
Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804 in a political act to establish his prestige and legitimacy. -
Napoleon's primary objective was to defeat the Imperial Russian Army and compel Czar Alexander I to rejoin to the Continental System -
Napoleon said a number of things while in exile, including that he heard the people's complaints, that he had come back to serve France, and that he would bring peace. -
it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever