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The Hall of Mirrors within the palace has a total of 357 mirrors.
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Explanation: When King Louis XIV was 5, a revolt broke out in Paris. The rebels were led by the disenfranchised aristocracy who believed their power was being threatened. ... Upon its completion in 1682, Louis moved in, and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to
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She was only 14 years old when she married the future Louis XVI. To seal the newfound alliance between longtime enemies Austria and France that had been forged by the Seven Years' War, the Austrian monarchs offered the hand of their youngest daughter to the heir apparent to the French throne, Dauphin Louis-Auguste.
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Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793. His wife, Marie-Antoinette, was guillotined nine months later, and their son Louis (XVII) died at the age of 10 while imprisoned by the Revolutionary government.
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The French Revolution resulted in the freeing of 10,000 African slaves. During the French Revolution many people were sent to The Guillotine to be beheaded. Many more were beheaded in the years following the French Revolution as well - in an era known as the 'Reign of Terror.
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The people beheaded Governor de Launay, put his head on a spike, and paraded it around the city of Paris.
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On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), voting "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.
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On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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It was supposed to humane but because of its great efficiency it was used hundreds of times each day. It is estimated that in the ten months of the Reign of Terror as many as 40,000 people in total were executed or were murdered. The guillotine became known among the revolutionaries as the 'National Razor'.
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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 (1769-1821), also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. ... After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced.
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Summary. 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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The Russian Campaign, 1812. In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon's edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed.
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e 1815, he was defeated at the bloody Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon's defeat ultimately signaled the end of France's domination of Europe.
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When Napoleon met his Waterloo, he wasn't actually in Waterloo. ...
British troops comprised only a minority of Wellington's forces. ...
A defeated Napoleon considered an escape to the United States