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In 1789 Louis XVI decided to call together the Estates General in order to increase taxes -
At the meeting of the Estates General, the Thrid Estate proposed a new voting system in wich each representative would have an individual vote. -
The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 marked the start of the Modern Age
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Was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly ,during the first stages of the French Revolution. -
It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and the National Convention. -
Was a single-chamber assembly in France from September 20, 1792, to October 26, 1795, during the French Revolution. -
The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. -
Was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. -
Napoleon Bonaparte gradually increased his power and was named First Consul for Life. -
In March the Napoleonic Code was finally approved. It codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. -
Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of France. He made the domestic policy and the international policy. -
Napoleon was crowned King of Italy. Bonaparte did not trust the Italians to govern themselves; he very definitely wanted to have a say in the redaction of the constitution of the new republic and Italy belonged to France and more specifically to Napoleon, since it was he alone who had conquered it. -
Spain signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau with France.It was an agreement agreed between Napoleon Bonaparte and the representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon made his own brother, Joseph Bonaparte, the new KIng of Spain. -
He defeated all the countries that were allied against Frances, except for Get Britain. However, his power began to decline because he had to divide his forces between 2 very distant fronts: Spain and Russian Empire. -
Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. The victorious powers re-established the Ancien Régime, although this only lasted for a short period of time.