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Was a political system associated with kings such as Louis XIII and, more particularly, Louis XIV.
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Theory is striking in saying that the only right people give up in order to enter into civil society and its benefits is the right to punish other people for violating rights. No other rights are given up, only the right to be a vigilante.
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Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes
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Louis moved in, and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader. He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days.
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They got married they lasted till January 21 1793 when he was executed.
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The third Estate vowed to write a new constitution for France. They did this because they got locked out.
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Bastille was stormed because the peasants wanted gunpowder for their muskets. This event was the "Spark" that caused the Revolution to begin.
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The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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A large group of women in a Paris marketplace began to revolt. The march gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king.
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One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. Executed by guillotine.
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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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His army was made up of soldiers from the several nations now under his control. The desperate Russians, however, adopted a "scorched-earth" policy: whenever they retreated, they burned the places they left behind.
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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
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Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, from the symbolic and historic date of 2 December 1852. His reign continued until 4 September 1870, after he was captured at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War.
