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Was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General
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was the name given to a series of parliamentary and republican regimes
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Assembly that governed during the most critical period of the French Revolution.
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One day after being convicted of conspiracy 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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During the Reign of Terror, France was ruled by a group of men called the Committee of Public Safety. ... The Jacobins felt that it was their duty to preserve the revolution, even if it meant violence and terror
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In the wake of the French Revolution, a young Napoleon Bonaparte begins a meteoric rise to power.
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was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate.
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French government established after the Coup of 18–19 Brumaire
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One of Napoleon's most important reforms, this set of laws included such freedoms as equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and the abolition of feudalism. Even though the Napoleonic Code gave many rights to the French it also took some away.
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In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years.
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it was a sovereign state that included a large part of Europe in its territory
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The Battle of Leipzig, also called the "Battle of the Nations", was the largest armed confrontation of all Napoleonic wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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the period that began when Napoleon I abdicated and the Bourbon monarchs were restored to the throne. ... Louis' reign was interrupted by Napoleon's return to France (see Hundred Days), but Napoleon was forced to abdicate again, leading to the Second Restoration.
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The Battle of Waterloo was a combat that took place in the vicinity of Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium located about twenty kilometers south of Brussels
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Charles X was King of France. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile.
