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The palace of Versailles was a vacation home for king louis. It was basically a massive house -
King Louis moved the capital to Versailles to escape the mess of Paris. Versailles was only supposed to be a hunting lodge. But he transformed into the capital of France -
A marriage was set up to settle a dispute between Austria and France. The wedding took place in Vienna -
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799
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Members of the French Third estate came together to sign a pledge in the early days of the French Revo -
Revolutionaries stormed the prison looking for guns and gunpowder. After they were done there was nothing left of the prison -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
Early in the French Revolution thousands of women stormed Versailles with bad intentions. They trashed the mansion and tried to kill King Louis' wife but was unsuccessful -
During the Reign of Terror, The people execute their former king to finally end his reign. He was executed via guillotine. -
The Reign of Terror, commonly called The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place -
Napoleon executes a Coup with his followers. Making him in charge of France
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor only to bring himself out of power 11 years later
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Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution. Before the Napoleonic Code, France did not have a single set of laws. -
Napoleon made himself emperor of all of France. Doing so in a very untraditional way of putting the crown on himself -
Napoleon tried to take over Russia. Only to fail miserably and come back with few troops. -
Napoleon's defeat came in June 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. This time, the European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled him to the island of St. Helena - a barren, wind-swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean. -
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