French

French Revolution

  • guillontine

    guillontine
    The guillotine choke is a chokehold in martial arts and wrestling applied from in front of the opponent. The choke involves using the arms to encircle the opponent's neck in a fashion similar to a guillotine. [no date]
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    french

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    french times

  • king louis becoming king

    king louis becoming king
    king louis was born on august 23rd 1754. he became king in 1765 because his father passed away.it says he took the trhone.his father was king louis xv.
  • napolean bonaparte becoming french leader

    napolean bonaparte becoming french leader
    a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. Napoleon he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic code,
  • marie antionette and king louis get married.

    marie antionette and king louis get married.
    on april 19th , 1770 , at the ages of 14 and 15. marie antoinette and king louis the 16th get married.they married very early.that is because he needed a queen when he had to take over thr throne.
  • national assembly being created

    national assembly being created
    June 20, 1789 National Assembly members take Tennis Court Oath. pledging to create new constitution.they wanted a new constitution to make new rights.
  • tennis court oath

    tennis court oath
    The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789 so they made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court located in the Saint-Louis district of Versailles near the Palace of Versailles.
  • bastille being attacked

    bastille being attacked
    occurred in Paris on the morning of 14 July 1789.On 5 May 1789 the Estates-General of 1789 convened to deal with the problem but were held back by archaic protocols and the conservatism of the Second Estate, consisting of the and ks/qs amounting to only 2% of France's population at the time. On 17 June 1789 the Third Estate with its representatives drawn from the middle class, or bourgeoisie, reconstituted themselves as the National Assembly, a body whose purpose was the creation of a French.
  • creation of the declartion of the rights of man

    creation of the declartion of the rights of man
    The representatives of the French people organized as a National Assembly.Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law.declartion set in 1789.
  • royal family trys to escape

    royal family trys to escape
    Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children disguised themselves as commoners and attempted to flee France for Austria. Louis was planning on joining anti-revolution royalist forces. They were almost to the Austrian border when they were stopped in the town of Varennes and brought back to Paris. This action stunned the French people and confirmed their decreasing support in their king. He was now more a prisoner to the revolution than ever.
  • king being killed

    king being killed
    louis XVI, king of France, arrived in the wrong historical place at the wrong time and soon found himself overcome by events beyond his control. After donning the crown, things only got worse.In 1792, the newly elected National Convention declared France a republic and brought Louis to trial for crimes against the people.
  • reign of terror

    reign of terror
    a period of violence that occurred after the French Revolution.On 2 June 1793, Paris sections encouraged by the enragés Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert took over the Convention.Meanwhile, on 24 June the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, the French Constitution of 1793.
  • france going to war vs austria/prussia

    france going to war vs austria/prussia
    The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian.was a war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire .