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. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America
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The Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682, under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789
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and changed the capital from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to.
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King Louis married Marie on May 16, 1770
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with forcing the royal court and family to move from the traditional seat of government in Versailles to Paris, a major and early turning point in the French Revolution.
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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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a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob.
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which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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was a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions
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that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress
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Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia.
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Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
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Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe.