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King louis XVI unprepared to be throne
Known as Louis Auguste early in life, the future king was never expected to be heir to the throne at all.
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King Louis and The Seven Years War
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.
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King Louis and Marie Antoinette
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.
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King Louis XVI has children
King louis had four children from Marie Antoinette
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Estate General Meeting
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. -
3rd Estate gets locked out
King louis XVI decides to lock out the 3rd estate during the meeting -
National Assembly was born!
The 3rd estate vowed to make a new constitution and become the national assembly -
The Declaration of man was sign
Now that king louis signed the document all men had the rights and liberty to do anything -
Women march to Versailles
The fish market ladies march down to versailles to tell the queen to give them their bread -
The womens break in!
The fish market ladies break into versialles and tear up the queen bedroom -
Louis and Marie move to paris
The fish market ladies force king louis and marie and children to move back to paris to see what was happening to their people. -
King Louis hires a finace maker
Jacques Necker swiss banker and director general of finance of france during the French Revolution -
France goes to war
the Legeslative Assembly decides to go to war with Austria and Prussia -
King Louis gets executed
Robespirre descides to but the king on trial for treason and he was found guilty and was executed in front of many people. -
Maxemillien is general
Maxemillien goes to the general to help the 3rd estate -
Passing of the Civil Code
The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. -
Coronation of Napoleon
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. -
Congress of Vienna
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. -
Exile to Elba
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814. -
100 Days
Hundred Days, French Cent Jours, in French history, perio. On which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba
