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Absolutism and the French Revolution .
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Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan
Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature could only be avoided by strong undivided government. -
When King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles.
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. -
John Locke & the Social Contract
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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When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
At Versailles, Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy. -
When the Decleration of the RIghts of Man and of the Citizen was written
the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Woman's March on Versailles
The womans march was an important because it gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king, they marched because bread was too high and they wanted rights too . -
Bastille is Stormed
This was not to free any prisoners but to get ammunition and arms. At the time, over 30,000 pounds of gunpowder was stored at the Bastille. But to them, it was also a symbol of the monarchy's tyranny. -
Tennis Court Oath
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". -
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a dark and violent period of time during the French Revolution. Radicals took control of the revolutionary government. They arrested and executed anyone who they suspected might not be loyal to the revolution. The French Revolution had begun four years earlier with the Storming of the Bastille. -
King Louis is executed XVI .
King Louis XVI executed. 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. -
Related to his time as an emperor .
Defeat in Russian Campaign .
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Nepoleon as Emperor
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Related to his life and death .
He gets exiled in south africa where he dies .
He battled the United Kindom and was defeated .
