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Jan 1, 1337
Hundred Years' War begins
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The Hundred Year's War began as a war between England and France. The English crowned themselves king of France, and therefore war broke out. The French held an early advantage because England was much smaller compared to the heavily built French kingdom. Despite that, the English were trained stricter and better. This resulted in a series of wars throughout the span of a 116 year period. -
Jan 1, 1453
Hundred Years' War Ends
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This war resulted in the reduction of the French population by half, as this war was fought mainly on French land. French territory was retrieved in 1558. This war resulted in English and French antagonism which still lasts to this day. -
Bastille Day
This marks the French holiday Bastille Day, which was the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress that symbolized Bourbon monarchs. It created during the Hundred Year War, in order to protect the French from English troops, with its original name 'Bastide,' which meant fortification. Later, it was used as a prison. On July 13, revolutionaries shot at the guards on Bastille's towers, and eventually, they took control of the Bastille and eventually even Paris. -
King accepts Constitution
Because revolutionaries took control of Paris and French countryside, King Louis XVI was forced to accept a constitutional government. The King was said to have feared civil war more than the idea of becoming a constitutional monarch. -
Revolution wins at Valmy
The Battle of Valmy is often regarded as one of the most important battles of all time, as it is said to have allowed the development of the revolution. Prussia and Austria had formed an alliance in order to restore the Bourbons in February 1792, but the declaration was made in April. The day after the battle, France became a Republic, and all Prussians were told to evacuate from French land. -
King Louis trialed and executed
Arrested in August 1792, the king and queen became imprisoned. On the day of King Louis' execution day, he was said to have said, "I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France." -
Reign of Terror begins
The Reign of Terror was a period of time in which the guillotine became the means of death by many French commonfolk. A person, and usually their family, was executed for something as minor as saying something critical of France's government. It had become such a normal occurance in France that women were even encouraged to knit and sew while people were beheaded in town. -
Marie Antoinette trialed and executed
On the day of her trial, Marie Antoinette was reported to have said, " I was a queen and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you robbed me of my children. My blood alone remains; take it, but do not make me suffer too long!" Despite sympathy and applause in her favor by even some of the hostile Frenchmen, she was still proclaimed guilty, and she was soon beheaded and buried. -
Reign of Terror ends
Tried for being the 'enemy of the people,' Robespierre, the man who was behind the numerous beheadings, was put to death by, ironically, the guillotine. -
Napoleon becomes emperor
At 35 years old, Napoleon is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to become emperor in a thousand years. -
Napoeon exiled to Isle of Elba
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Losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon was exiled to the Isle of Elba, until he escaped to France and built up another army in 1815. -
「EXP#1」Dantes is Imprisoned at the Chateau d'If
Accused of being a Bonapartist, Dantes is taken away to the Chateau d'If in which he meets the Abbe Faria and slowly goes mad, overcome with the newly taught idea of vengeance. -
Battle of Waterloo; Napleon exiled again
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Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena and confined in house arrest, while the majority of his followers disbanded. He died in 1821 of an assumed stomach cancer. -
Dantes Escapes + Gains his Riches - Rising Action 1
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「EXP#2」Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If after Abbe Faria's death
Edmond Dantes, left in the Chateau d'If to die, finally escapes after 14 years of incarceration and learning many things from his mentor, Abbe Faria. After his unfortunate death, Dantes attempts to stuff himself into his body bag, and gets plunged into the sea. Saving himself, Dantes later discovers a band of pirates, including Jacopo, in which he eventually finds the Abbe Faria's fabled treasure. Later, he returns to Paris under the alias of the Count of Monte Cristo. -
「RA#1」Caderousse dies
Tainted by his own greed, Caderousse ends up attempting to rob the Count after Andrea Calvalcanti's words of how rich the Count was. However, Caderousse was stabbed by Calvalcanti, and afterwards, the Count forced him to write two letters about the subject. -
「RA#2」Albert's duel
After his father's trial, Albert goes off in search of the one who ruined Fernand. Eventually leading to the conclusion that the Count was to blame, Albert challenges Dantes to a duel. However, Mercedes' pleads persuade the two not to fight. -
「RA#3」Fernand's suicide
After the Count confronting Fernand, he shot himself out of honor and due to his family retreating from him and the sheer realization that the Count had been his rival, Edmond Dantes, the entire time. -
「RA#4」Villefort's madness
By this point, Villefort's entire family had fallen sick with the exception of himself, his wife, and Nortier, who had grown immune to the brucine. Coming home to the sight of his wife and child dead to the poison after his harsh words previously was enough to drive him into insanity, especially after meeting once more with Edmond Dantes, the man he had once imprisoned many years ago. -
「CLI#1」Danglars spared
Scraped of his remaining money by the Italian bandits, the Count returns to allow him to go free, marking the end of his vengeance. -
「FA#1」Maximilien's threat
Overcome with sadness by the apparent loss of his lover, Valentine, Maximilien gives the Count a time span of a month before he managed to kill himself by the Count's own means. However, at the very last day, Maximilien convinces the Count not to die with him and drinks the 'poison,' until he realizes that Valentine was alive and they were able to be reunited. -
「RES#1」Dantes' exit
After telling Mercedes that they would see each other again, and concluding his business, Dantes leaves with Haydee, leaving Maximilien and Valentine to live their lives in peace, feeling exempt from any more of God's plans regarding Dantes' vengeance.
