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In November 1792, a secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 -
Many of the soldiers in the National Guard sided with the women marchers.
The Palace of Versailles was located around 12 miles southwest of Paris.
Future leaders of the French Revolution met with the marchers at the palace including Robespierre and Mirabeau. -
It is the start of the french revolution.It also passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man. -
The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution and was an important revolutionary act. -
The main reason is hungry due to a lack of food from poor harvests, upset at the conditions of their lives and annoyed with their King and Government. -
It sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression. -
On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution , where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd. -
The Reign of Terror , or simply the Terror was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
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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 addressed mainly matters relating to property and families. -
He did it to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty. -
Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan.the Spanish Constitution of 1812, the restoration of Ferdinand VII as King, and the collapse of the First French Empire.
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the Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Armée of more than 500,000 European troops. -
On April 11, 1814, 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. -
he got too sick and died from it.