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On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles, The procession started at Notre-Dame, crossed the Place d’Armes and finished at the church of Saint-Louis, where Monseigneur de La Fare bishop of Nancy stood at the pulpit and gave his famous speech in which he severely rebuked the luxury of the court. -
An oath said to never stop meeting until a constitution had been established.The benefit from the oath showed that people from lower classes could participate in leisure activities, and represented the power of the people. -
Revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armory, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille.This also signaled the start of the French Revolution -
A document issued by the National Assembly on August 26 1789 that granted sovereignty to all French people. The declaration which drew from the ideas of some of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers asserted that liberty is a natural and imprescriptible right of man and that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights." -
The woman's march on Versailles was the protest against the king scarcity and increased pricing on bread.Their successful protesting of the palace proved that the monarchy is subject to the will of the peopl. -
During the French Revolution the French Constitution was made, it created a new structure for the Government of France. It specifically limited the powers of the monarchy of France delegated legislative powers to an elected National Assembly and created an elected judiciary. -
King Louis was sent to the guillotine on January 21, 1793 due to the suspicion of the kings power after the attack the Tuileries by Parisian radicals on August 10, 1792. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was also convicted of treason and beheaded on October 16. -
The reign of terror was a period in time that lasted from 09.05.1793 through 07.27.1794 during the French Revolution when a series of massacres and multiple public executions took place as a response to revolutionary fervour and accusations of treason by the committee of public safety. -
Napoleon drew together an alliance with a number of prominent political figures and they overthrew the Directory by a coup d'état on November 9, 1799 -
Napoleon built his empire through conquest of territories belonging to his enemies, and by defending France and effectively defeating the Coalition armies -
The French invasion of Russia also known as the Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. The Grande Armee led by Napoleon crossed the Neman River invading Russia from present day Poland. -
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. the Congress of Vienna was to provide a long term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. -
Following Napoleon's retreat from Russia and the subsequent defeat of his army by the Sixth Coalition at Leipzig, the armies of the Sixth Coalition invaded France and advanced toward Paris.The Sixth Coalition, which included Russia, Austria, Prussia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, and several German states, defeated the First French Empire and drove Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba. -
before officially becoming King Louis XVIII in 1814 at the fall of the Empire,The grandson of Louis XV and brother of Louis XVI, Louis Stanislas Xavier declared himself King of France in 1795.He continued to strive to exercise his right to the French crown and affirm his legitimacy in the face of revolutionary France and European monarchies. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The battle concluded a war that had raged for 23 years ended French attempts to dominate Europe and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.