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This is where french royalty lived after King Louis moved the capital of France to Versailles from Paris. This is also where King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette lived after they married.
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This is when King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles. King Louis moved the capital because a revolt broke out in Paris making it no longer safe.
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette married when Louis was 15 and Marie was 14. They were marries for 37 years.
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The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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The Tennis Court Oath was when the members of the French Third Estate took a vote "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution. This all happen on a Tennis Court.
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The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. This only applied to men. It excluded women and children.
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A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians and marched toward Versailles. They stormed the Palace in search of Marie Antoinette.The King agreed to meet with some of the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd.
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King Louis XVI is executed because he was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was beheaded by a guillotine.
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The Reign of Terror was a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions. This last from September 5th, 1793 to July 28th, 1794.
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Napoleon launched a Coup d'Etat that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815.
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After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family and individual rights.
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On May 18, 1804, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense.
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Napoleon failed to conquer Russia in 1812 for several reasons: faulty logistics, poor discipline, disease, and not the least, the weather. Napoleon's method of warfare was based on rapid concentration of his forces at a key place to destroy his enemy.
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With Paris under threat, Napoleon was forced to abdicate and sent packing to an island off the coast of Tuscany called Elba on 11 April 1814.
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The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe.
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After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
