-
Known as Louis Auguste early in life, the future king was never expected to be heir to the throne at all.
French Revolution Video -
Louis XV was king of France for 59 years, from February 1715 until his death in May 1774. As a result of France's lack of strength in the Seven Years' War, Louis had lost to the British nearly all of France's colonial possessions in North America and India by 1763.
French Revolution Video -
At Versailles, Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. France hoped their marriage would strengthen its alliance with Austria, its longtime enemy.
French Revolution Video -
King louis had four children from Marie Antoinette
French Revolution Video -
France of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility which were privileged minorities,and a Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people.
-
King louis XVI decides to lock out the 3rd estate during the meeting
-
The 3rd estate vowed to make a new constitution and become the national assembly
-
Now that king louis signed the document all men had the rights and liberty to do anything
-
The fish market ladies march down to versailles to tell the queen to give them their bread
-
The fish market ladies break into versialles and tear up the queen bedroom
-
The fish market ladies force king louis and marie and children to move back to paris to see what was happening to their people.
-
Jacques Necker swiss banker and director general of finance of france during the French Revolution
-
the Legeslative Assembly decides to go to war with Austria and Prussia
-
Robespirre descides to but the king on trial for treason and he was found guilty and was executed in front of many people.
-
Maxemillien goes to the general to help the 3rd estate
-
The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
-
The pomp of the Coronation day began when a dozen processions of deputations from the cities of France, the Army and Navy, the legislative assemblies, the judiciary, the administrative corps, the Legion of Honor, the Institute, and chambers of commerce left different points to converge on Notre-Dame cathedral.
-
Emperor Napoleon was defeated in May 1814 and Cossacks marched along the Champs-Elysées into Paris. The victorious Great Powers (Russia, Great Britain, Austria and Prussia) invited the other states of Europe to send plenipotentiaries to Vienna for a peace conference.
-
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814.
-
Hundred Days, French Cent Jours, in French history, perio. On which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba
