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it was a small country recedence. construction stopped in 1631 for 3 years and starting back up in 1634 -
The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682. By moving his court and government to Versailles Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris -
King Louis married a 15 year old girl from Austria. The young couple soon came to symbolize all of the excesses of the reviled French monarchy and Marie Antoinette herself became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip.
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the social classes were not getting alone and were arguing a lot. they needed the french revolution to make it better for the 3rd class because they were getting treated horribly
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The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution and was an important revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation's people and not from the monarchy. -
A state prison on the east side of Paris known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. When the prison was attacked it actually held only seven prisoners but the mob had not gathered for them it had come to demand the huge ammunition stores held within the prison walls. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly is a fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners although it excluded a significant segment of the French population. -
women marched to versille and protested outside of the king and queens mansion. they made their way in and raided the building and found what they were looking for -
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. During their trip, they were apprehended at Varennes, France, and carried back to Paris -
A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions and marked by mass executions of the enemies of the revolution. The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands with 16,594 executed by guillotine. -
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. -
napoleon was a french military and political leader who rose to power during the french revolution. he led several political campaigns during the revolutionary war.
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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. -
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. However, at the ceremony Napoleon surprised everyone by not allowing the Pope to crown him. Instead he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress. -
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. -
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.
