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the palace of Versailles was built 12 miles from France. it was the family home of King Louis -
hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris. he hoped to escape the rebels. -
they only married each other because they were forced. neither of them really liked each other which is why they never had kids. -
The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
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a dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non-privileged classes of the French nation. in this period of time, they displayed the belief of political authority came from the people -
The Third Estate had recently made demands of the king and had demanded that the commoners have more of a say in government. The Bastille was rumored to be full of political prisoners and was a symbol to many of the oppression of the king. -
The Declaration was intended to serve as a preamble to the French Constitution of 1791, which established a constitutional monarchy. A purely republican form of government awaited the Constitution of 1793 after the treason conviction of Louis XVI had led to his execution and the abolition of the monarchy. -
The march symbolized a new balance of power that displaced the ancient privileged orders of the French nobility and favored the nation's common people, collectively termed the Third Estate. -
they all brought him to trial for treason. he was killed by the guillotine. this death was very popular amongst the people. -
The Reign of Terror, also called The Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul
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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 of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution. After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor. -
The civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807 addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. -
Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns the invasion of Russia. -
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. Napoleon's defeat ultimately signaled the end of France's domination of Europe. -
the battle of waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Through a series of wars, he expanded his empire across western and central Europe.