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The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. It was built to impress and seduce as it is a royal palace. -
Before the reign of Louis Versailles was used mainly as a royal hunting lodge, but he had different plans. He had started expanding it into a personal palace in 1661, in 1682 he had moved into it. -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's marriage confirmed and strengthened the Franco-Austrian alliance, which had many opponents among French elites and commoners. When they got married Marie was 14 and Louis was 15. -
The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
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The tennis court oath was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. It has become one of the most iconic scenes of the French Revolution. -
The storming of Bastille was when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written from the french revolution. The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
The women's march on Versailles encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. it was also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, and was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
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. -
The Reign of Terror, commonly called The 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. They did this to anyone they had any suspicion of being an enemy. -
the coup d'état that 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. -
Enacted on March 21, 1804, the resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code (renamed the Code Napoleon in 1807) addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. -
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. He placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress. -
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He crowned himself emperor in 1804 and he successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire.
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Russian casualties have been estimated at 200,000 killed, 50,000 dispersed or deserting, and 150,000 wounded. The dissolution of the Grande Armée meant that the French army could no longer absorb new recruits into well-established formations. -
In 1814, Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba. -
The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe. Waterloo ended the wars that had convulsed Europe since the French Revolution