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he moved the royal Court to the Palace of Versailles, the defining symbol of his power and influence in Europe -
it provided Europe with a model of the ideal royal residence for over a century -
Marriage of the Dauphin Louis and Marie Antoinette -
representatives of the clergy and nobles of France swore they would not disperse until a constitution was established for France -
idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles -
a riot that took place during this first stage of the French Revolution -
hundreds of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a state prison, seizing 250 barrels of gunpowder and freeing its prisoners -
It looked to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power,
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Louis Capet, King of France was beheaded by the guillotine -
the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter revolutionary suspects -
overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte -
marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era -
he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself -
he crowned himself emperor in 1804 and successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire
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Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched earth policy -
He was exiled to the island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy -
Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher