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The Palace of Versailles was built 12 miles from France. It was the family home of King Louis -
Versailles before the reign of Louis was mainly used as a royal hunting lodge; but Louis had other plans for that. In 1661, he expanded it to make it his personal palace. Upon its completion in 1682, Louis moved there and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil facing Paris. -
At Versailles, Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy. -
a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. -
This defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
The march symbolized a new balance of power that displaced the ancient privileged orders of the French nobility and favored the nation's common people -
The purpose was to get ammunition and arms. At the time, over 30,000 pounds of gunpowder was stored at the Bastille. -
A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
A secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine