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The Palace of Versailles was built for King Louis -
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 was 15 and Marie was 14 when they got married -
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 French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates-General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799
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they were a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. It has become one of the most iconic scenes of the French Revolution. -
Parisians stormed the Bastille was not to free any prisoners but to get ammunition and arms. At the time, over 30,000 pounds of gunpowder was stored at the Bastille. This armed the Parisian rebels, allowing the possibility of a successful offensive attack. -
many of them women embarked on a 12-mile march to Versailles, the residence of the French king Louis XVI and the National Constituent Assembly. Driven to desperation by food shortages, they hoped the king would intervene – but some had more sinister ambitions. -
a secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace -
period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804.
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the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. -
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense -
In the Battle of Krasnoi Napoleon was able to avoid a complete defeat. By the time the Berezina was reached Napoleon only had about 49,000 troops and 40,000 stragglers of little military value. -
Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. -
The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe.