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A political system associated with kings such as Louis XIII and, more particularly, Louis XIV. Absolute rule meant that the power of the monarch was, in theory, unlimited except by divine law or by what was called 'natural law'.
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The idea that life, liberty, and property are given to us by nature and shouldn't be taken away.
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Hobbes's concept of a social contract was taken up by others who developed it in different directions, men such as Algernon Sidney, and most notably John Locke, author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). Leviathan is now recognized as a cornerstone of Western political philosophy, particularly in its ideas of a 'social contract' between ruler and ruled.
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Versailles before the reign of Louis was mostly used as a royal hunting lodge; but Louis had other plans for it. In 1661, he began expanding it into his personal palace. Upon its completion in 1682, Louis moved in, and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to.
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He was born in Ajaccio, France.
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A marriage between the two royal houses had been planned since the early 1760s, but only came about in 1770. On 19 April the wedding took place by proxy in Vienna, marrying the Dauphin and future Louis XVI, the grandson of Louis XV, to Marie-Antoinette, the youngest daughter of Maria-Theresa of Habsburg.
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As a boy, Napoleon attended school in mainland France, where he learned the French language, and went on to graduate from a French military academy in 1785.
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The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris
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A period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. ... After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor.
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Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time.
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Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815.
