1600 - 1900 France

By rjhoward16

  • Versailles is constructed

  • Descartes "Discourse on Method"

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • The First Fronde

  • French classicism

  • the Second Fronde

  • Louis XIV reign begins

  • Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes Prime Minister

  • Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws"

  • Diderot's Encyclopedia

  • Voltaire's "Candide"

  • Rousseau's "Emile"

  • French Revolution

  • Abbe Sieye's "What is the Third Estate?"

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

  • Marie Antoinette executed

  • King Louis XIV executed

  • Committee of Public Safety

  • Robespierre executed

  • The Directory

  • Napoleon's coup d'etat

  • Napoleonic Wars

  • Napoleonic Code

  • Louis XVII coronation

  • Revolution of France

  • Louis Napoleon elected President

  • Bloody June Days

  • Louis Philippe abdicates

  • Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III

  • Baron Haussmann redesigns Paris

  • Pasteur's Germ Theory

  • 3rd Republic of France

  • Impressionist movement

  • Paris Commune rejects Prussia

  • Post-Impressionism

  • Boulanger Affair

  • Dreyfus Affair

  • Emile Zola's "J'Accuse"