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Palace of Versailles built was a small country residence. Also, the Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682 under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
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In 1661, he began expanding it into his personal palace. Its completion in 1682. Louis moved in, and changed the capital
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They were only married for 22 years. The main reason why the didn't last very long is because of how young they were.. they were only 14 and 15
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The French Revolution began in May 1789 when the Ancien Régime was abolished of a constitutional monarchy. Its replacement in September 1792
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Members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France. Which was on the afternoon of 14 July 1789.
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the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen. Inspired by the American Revolution and also by the Enlightenment philosophers.
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the October Days or simply the March on Versailles. Which was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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One day after being convicted 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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A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions. The Girondins and the Jacobins
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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war
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overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France. Then substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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napoloenic code still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804,
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the bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars. The Russian Army withdrew the following day, leaving the French again without the decisive victory Napoleon sought.
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was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium. part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time
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Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815. Raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success
