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Absolute monarchy
A Absolute monarchy is governmental form where the monarch governs the country with absolute power without having to abide by any laws or regulations. -
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Age of Absolutism
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The Monarchy
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Napoleon - birth
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. -
Napoleon - Assessor of the judicial district
he was appointed assessor of the judicial district of Ajaccio in 1771, a plush job that eventually enabled him to enroll his two sons, Joseph and Napoleon, in France's College d'Autun. -
Enlightenment Despots
An age of enlightened despots like Frederick the Great, who unified, rationalized and modernized Prussia in between brutal multi-year wars with Austria, and of enlightened would-be revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, whose “Declaration of Independence” (1776) framed the American Revolution in terms taken from of Locke’s essays. -
Napoloen - Millitary College
Napoleon ended up at the military college of Brienne, where he studied for five years, before moving on to the military academy in Paris in 1785 -
Third Estate forms the National Assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate. -
Storming the Bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. It was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy. -
Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizan
a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights. It defines the individual and collective rights. -
March Of 7000 Women
The Women's March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. -
Assembly completed its Connstitution
A constituent assembly (sometimes also known as a constitutional convention or constitutional assembly) is a body composed for the purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution. As the fundamental document constituting a state, a constitution cannot normally be modified or amended by the state's normal legislative procedures; instead a constituent assembly, the rules for which are normally laid down in the constitution, must be set up. -
The Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety , created in March 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror -
March of the Tuileries Palace
On the appointed evening, the tocsin sounded from the bell tower and a crowd gathered before the City Hall and headed toward the Tuileries Palace -
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The Republic
n the history of France, the First Republic, officially the French Republic , was founded on 22 September 1792, by the newly established National Convention. -
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Reign of Terror
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Convention of the moderate Republicans
In July 1793, following the defeat at the Convention of the moderate Republicans. the prominent leaders of the radical Jacobins Maximilien Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Georges Couthon were added to the Committee. -
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The committee of Public Safety
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The Directory
The Directory was a body of five directors that held executive power in France following the National Convention and preceding the Consulate. The period of this regime commonly known as the Directory era, constitutes the second to last stage of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon became emperor
Napoleon's reforms proved popular. In 1802 he was elected consul for life, and two years later he was proclaimed emperor of France. -
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Napoleon as emperor
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Napoloen - while emperor - millitary
Napoleon's military success, however, soon gave way to broader defeats, beginning in 1810, when France suffered a string of losses that tapped the country's military budget -
Long 18th Century
European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment. -
Napoleons - death
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Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII, known as "the Desired" was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1824 except for a period in 1815 known as the Hundred Days.
