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Louis XIV wanted to show that France could produce mirrors just as fine as those produced in Italy. -
By moving it his court and government to Versailles Louis XIV hope to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris. -
France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria. Maire was 14 years old when she got married and he was 15 years old. -
During the French Revolution, many people were sent to The Guillotine to be beheaded. Many more were beheaded in the years following the French Revolution as well - in an era known as the 'Reign of Terror. '
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A revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation's people and not from the monarchy. -
was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
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. -
Encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. -
The terror was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
He was convicted of high treason and some other crimes, resulting in his execution. -
Coup d'état 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 Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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The resulting 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 proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. -
Napoleon failed to conquer Russia in 1812 for several reasons: faulty logistics, poor discipline, disease, and not the least, the weather. -
emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
During the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon's escape from exile to the return of Louis XVIII.