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The Palace of Versailles was the official residence of France. It was meant to display Louis XIV's power and wealth
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King Louis XIV moved the Capital of France to Versailles. Most of the nobles were in the capital.
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Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were married to increase the power of them both. Marie wasn't able to have children so her reputation was lowered.
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The Tennis Court Oath was an oath within the third estate where they will continue meeting until a constitution was made. The third estate was kicked out of the meeting with the other estates so they met at a tennis court to have their own meeting
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The Bastille was stormed by an angry mob to free the prisoners and get weaponry. The Bastille was a prison and an armory.
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The French National assembly wrote a fair constitution for the people of France. It allowed everyone to have individual rights
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This is the time when the women marched into Versailles looking for Marie because they suspected her of hoarding a lot of grain. The women were very angry and aggressive but they never got to Marie.
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This is when Louis the XIV was executed in public by a guillotine. He was convicted of conspiring with enemy powers.
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The Reign of Terror was a time period of executions using the guillotine. The guillotine was invented and the people went on a massacre, executing anyone who was against them.
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Napoleon launches a Coup d'Etat to take over the corrupt and weak government. He then made himself the consulate
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The code contained a bunch of laws that included commercial and criminal laws. It deprived women of individual rights and made the men's authority over their family stronger.
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After taking over the government he became an emperor so he could control the lands he took over as well as France. He did it to show that he wouldn't be controlled by Rome.
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Napoleon had an army of half a million and they went to invade Russia. The Russians didn't want to fight so they retreated and burned the supplies to weakened the French army. Napoleon's army ended up losing to starvation and an ambush by Russia.
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He was defeated at the battle of Waterloo and then that ended the reign of France of Europe. He was exiled to an island guarded by British guards and he ended up dying.
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Napoleon gathered troops to go to Belgium but was met by an alliance of the British and Prussians. Napoleon ended up losing the battle because of his inexperienced troops and he was outnumbered.
