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built in what eventually came to be the city of Versailles. It was initially built as a small hunting lodge but has had considerable expansions since that time -
Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Pari -
A marriage between the two royal houses had been planned since the early 1760s, but only came about in 1770 -
an expression of universal human rights—those rights that are true at all times and in all places—that served as one of the foundational documents of the French Revolution -
the National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution -
a state prison, seizing 250 barrels of gunpowder and freeing its prisoners -
the royal family's return to Paris, and the resolution of constitutional debates -
when King Louis XVI died on the guillotine -
was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution -
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte -
the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era -
On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor -
The campaign was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars -
When he arrived at the port of Plymouth he learned on 31 July that he was to be exiled to St Helena, a small island under British rule -
fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher