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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was a military general who became the first emperor of France. His drive for military expansion changed the world.Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.By the time around Napoleon's birth, Corsica's occupation by the French had drawn considerable local resistance. Napoleon grew up in revolution/war all his life so thats what made him great leader -
Aristocratic Revolution
A precursor to the French Revolution, the dubbed "Aristocratic Revolt" of 1787-1788 was a reaction against the economic reforms suggested by Charles-Alexandre Calonne, comptroller of France, and later by Étienne Charles Loménie de Brienne, minister of finance. -
Rise of the Sans Culotte
The sans-culottes were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, many of them became militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life. The name sans-culottes refers to their clothing, and through that to their lower-class status. The sans-culottes, really came to power when they showed a lot of nationalism for there country and then begging starting mobs, and clubs to make France pay. -
Estates General, Bread, Economic Depression
Estates-General, also called States General, in France of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility and a Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people. Throughout the French Revolution the third Estate was treated unfairly and needed bread to survive they never got that because France's king was spending all the money on himself and not the people this became know as economical depression. -
National Assembly/Tennis Court Oath
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789. It was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General, until replaced by the Legislative Assembly sometime in Sept. On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath. It called Tennis court oath because they met by a tennis court. -
Bastille Day/Great Fear
The French National Day Bastille day comes from the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a turning point of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress for weapons and ammo and the reason it got attacked was because the citizens of France where starving and started a riot there and eventually freed the prisoners and turned the french revolution around. -
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The reasoning for the march on Versailles was because the families of these Women where starving because King Louis was to busy spending his money having a good time instead of worrying about his finical government going corrupt. This made the price of bread go up way to high mostly for the 3rd estate -
Constitution of 1791
Constitution of 1791, French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. This constitution is one of the many that are actually important because most Constitutions took most of there ideas and thought and put it in there own. -
War with Austria
On April 20, 1792, the Legislative Assembly (France's governing body, formed in 1791) declared war on Austria. Although the French fared poorly at first, the armies became more successful as the war progressed.By 1792, European Monarchs were eyeing France with suspicion. They had seen the overthrow of Louis XVI, by the French people, and worried that revolutionary fervor would spread to their countries. However in France the public opinion was for war. This later lead to the war with Austria. -
War
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 1792 until 1802, resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted the French First Republic against Britain, Austria and several other monarchies. -
September Massacre
The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris (2–7 September 1792) and other cities in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. -
French Republic
The National Convention met in September 1792 and voted to abolish the monarchy immediately and establish a republic. It proceeded to try Louis XVI for treason, convicted him, and executed him on January 21, 1793. This later lead to France dealing with Napoleon and after napoleons death France finally became a republic. -
Death of the King
The execution of Louis XVI was by the new device the guillotine, it took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place of Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution. The reasoning for his death was because he was getting into a bunch of wars with people he could not fight because he had no food no people to fight and no money. -
Committee of Public Safety/Robespierre
The Committee of Public Safety was created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793. It was later formed for the executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–94), a stage of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. He dealt with the Committee of Public Safety by killing King Louis. -
Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 until the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Its purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders. This was a major event through the French Revolution. -
Thermidorian Reaction
The Thermidorian Reaction was an event in revolutionary France, and is so named because it began in the month of Thermidor on the Revolutionary Calendar (July 19 - August 17) of the year II (1794). It was a reaction to the Reign of Terror after the execution of Maximilien Robespierre. -
Directory
Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. -
Consul
A portrait of the three Consuls, Jean Jacques , Napoleon Bonaparte and (left to right). The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. -
Civil Code
Napoleonic Code. The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon, and officially Code civil des Français) is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804. -
Wars 1807-1812
The wars of 1807- 1812 where also know as the Napoleonic Wars. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Anglo-Russian War was the phase of hostilities between the United Kingdom and Russia after the latter signed the Treaty of Tilsit that ended its war with France. -
1812- Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
1814 Exile
Louis XVIII spent twenty-three years in exile, from 1791 to 1814, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, and again in 1815, during the period of the Hundred Days, upon the return of Napoleon I from Elba. -
1815 Waterloo/Exile
The Battle of Waterloo was fought as part of the Napoleonic Wars. Waterloo was a village to the south of Brussels in Belgium. Here, Napoleon Bonaparte's French soldiers met the armies of Britain and Prussia. The battle took place on June 18, 1815, and it was Napoleon's last stand. After the battle he was then exiled and died. -
Coup d'état
Coup d’état, was a violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people wanting change a coup is a change in power from the top that merely results in the abrupt replacement of leading government personnel. Among the earliest modern coups were those in which Napoleon overthrew the Directory on Nov. 9, 1799 and in which Louis Napoleon dissolved the assembly of France’s Second Republic in 1851. -
August Decrees
The Decree of August 4, 1789. ARTICLE I. The National Assembly hereby completely abolishes the feudal system. It decrees that, among the existing rights and dues, both feudal and censuel, all those originating in or representing real or personal serfdom shall be abolished without indemnification. -
Virtue changes
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French Empire
The First French Empire, was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. -
Louisiana Purchase/Bread
he Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.It was sold to us by Napoleon and he used that money to make his army great again and feed the French.
