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Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only on public utility. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man -
representatives of the non-clergy and non-nobles of France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France. -
fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
from being a meeting about taxes and money, to being about the Third Estate and their wish for power and the reformation of a new government. -
The French Revolution was a period of major social conflict that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. 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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It was a time of widespread unrest and violence in the French countryside, with peasants and townspeople attacking manorial houses and destroying feudal documents. -
a violent period of the French Revolution when the Revolutionary government took harsh measures against those suspected of opposing the revolution
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Louis Capet, formerly King of France was beheaded by the guillotine. -
The Revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people suspected of being enemies of the Revolution. -
Coup of 18–19 Brumaire, (November 9–10, 1799), 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. -
a period in European history from 1804 to 1815 when Napoleon Bonaparte ruled France and established French dominance over much of continental Europe
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The Congress of Vienna was the first of a series of international meetings that came to be known as the Concert of Europe, an attempt to forge a peaceful balance of power in Europe. -
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 decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.