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The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers west of Paris, and France. -
On 6 May 1682, Versailles became the headquarters of the government. They hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from Paris. -
Although Marie Antoinette initially condescended to her husband, she loved King Louis. She went on to have four children. -
The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution was not a single event but a series of developments that unfolded between 1789 and 1799.
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Representatives of the non-clergy and non-nobles of France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France. This is still used today. -
Hundreds of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a state prison. The storming of the Bastille was a pivotal moment in the French Revolution. -
When The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written in 1789. Formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution. -
The king and agreed to leave Versailles and accompany the mob back to Paris. Many of them women, marched 12 miles to Versailles. -
Louis XVI died at the guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was 38 years old when he was excecutued and were killed for alleged treason. -
It was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution. There were mass killings and excecutions. -
The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution. -
The architect of France's recovery following the Revolution before setting out to conquer Europe, which led to his downfall.
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The French civil code established under Napoleon I in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists. -
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. -
Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy. The last French troops leaving Russian soil -
He abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, where he lived out the rest of his days. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe.