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The Palace of Versailles was the place were king Louis XVI had built of the start of the French revolution.
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King Louis XVI began expanding it into his personal kingdom, Louis moved in and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the drama Paris was going through.
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The king was 15 and forced to marry a 14 Mary Antoinette so he can take the thrown from his fathers death.
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the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath voting "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
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A state prison in Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry citizens of the city.
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the French National Constituent Assembly made up the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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The Women's March on Versailles was an important event at the start of the French Revolution. It gave them confidence in the power of the people over the king.
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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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The Reign of Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the beginning of the First French Republic, witch led to a series massacres and numerous public executions.
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coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism
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It codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family.
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Napoleon was a French military and political leader who rose to power during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense.
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Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River.
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Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba.
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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
