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Built by Louis XIV as a hunting lodge but then was expanded into a hunting lodge. -
Once the palace of Versailles was built the king loved the building so much that he decided to make it the capital. -
All men are born free and equal, and that the purpose of government is to protect their rights -
a vow made by representatives of the Third Estate to not separate until a constitution was established for France. -
Fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille -
A march of working women to the palace of Versailles, protesting the price of bread. -
Violence during the French Revolution, public execution were a common thing roughly 27,000 people. -
Executed by guillotine. He was seen as a traitor and a public enemy. -
An arranged marriage sort of situation. The marriage was troubled and there was not much interest between the couple. -
Overthrowing of the government of the French Directory and replaced it with the French Consulate -
Established the principle of legal equality, abolishing feudal privileges and ensuring that all citizens were subject to the same laws -
Napoleon I and his wife Joséphine were crowned Emperor and Empress of the French. Napoleon crowned himself and his wife to give himself a since of power over the church (Because normally a priest crowns the new king) -
Napoleon's army eventually reached a Moscow abandoned and destroyed by the Russian army based on the scorched-earth policy -
Napoleon was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died of stomach cancer in 1821, aged 51 -
Ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever