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implemented a rigorous economic policy, reducing the crown's expenditure and imposing structural reforms on the way the royal finances were administered. -
French revolutionary, famously murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793 -
overthrew the Directory, allowing the popular military leader Napoleon to seize power in the coup of 18 Brumaire -
advocated for all those she saw as under represented including orphaned children, and women -
the last Bourbon king of France who was executed in 1793 for treason -
vivacious, outgoing, and bold, a social butterfly who loved gambling, partying and extravagant fashions. -
one of the most successful generals of the French revolutionary armies -
a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems -
France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
The Great Fear was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring -
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. -
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death -
The Reign of 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 in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety -
members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing “not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.” It was a pivotal event in the early -
The French invasion of Russia, also known as Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom