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The Palace of Versailles was the royal residence of France. It is located in the department of Yvelines.
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Louis moved in and changed the capital of France from Paris to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to. He invited all of the aristocracy to live with him because he knew he could control them.
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At the age of 15, Louis XVI married 14-year old Marie-Antoinette. She was Louis' second cousin once removed.
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The French Revolution began when the Acien Regime was abolished in favor of a constitutional monarchy. It's replacement by the First French Republic led to the execution of Louis XVI.
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The members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath. They voted "not to separate and reassemble wherever necessary, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.
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The Bastille is a state prison on the east side of Paris. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.
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The French National Constitute Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man. This defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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This was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris.
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King Louis XVI was convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers. He was sentenced to death by the French National Convention.
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This event was a period of violence during the French Revolution. It was incited by conflict between two rival political factions.
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Coup d'Etat overthrew the system of government under the directory in France and substituted the Consulate. This made way for despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Napoleon was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. After seizing political power in France in a 1799 Coup d'Etat, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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The Napoleonic Code codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law. This made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor and made Josephine empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 20, 1804, in the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
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Napoleon gathered his fearsome grand army, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. This was known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign.
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With Paris under threat, Napoleon was forced to abdicate. The victors drew up the Treaty of Fontainebleau as the former Emperor was sent packing to an island off the coast of Tuscany.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on a Sunday near Waterloo in Belgium. Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians.
