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The Palace of Versailles is a royal residence still standing today. Louis XIV built this and several generations of architect, sculptors, decorators and landscape architects are located inside. -
King Louis hoped to have more control over the government from the nobility. He wanted to distance himself from the whole population of Paris. -
Marie Antoinette's parents were Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. They married in hopes that their marriage would help the alliance with Austria between France. -
This established a constitutional monarchy. A human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
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This displayed the belief that political authority came from nation's people and not from the monarchy. It was signed in the early time of the French Revolution -
Revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
A group of woman in a Paris marketplace began to revolt. They marched through Paris demanding bread at a fair price. -
He wouldn't give up his royal power to the Revolutionary government. He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. -
This marked the beginning of almost two years of repressing perceived enemies of the Revolution. 18,500 to 40,000 lives were lost.
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It overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted teh Consulate. It made way for the despotism of Napoleon. -
It resulted Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. The Civil Code mostly addressed mainly matters relation to property and families. -
He claimed himself emperor and made Josephine empress. His coronation ceremony took place on Dec 2, 1804. -
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Napoleon and his army of about 100,000 men occupied Moscow. He came to find it abandoned and the city was soon ablaze. -
He was exiled to the island of Elba. It was between Corsica and Italy. -
He mysteriously was able to slip past the British guards unnoticed and set sail for France. He raises a small army and returns back to France. -
Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians. Napoleon won the battle. -
He died after so claimed "stomach problems." He died at 51.
