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March on Versailles
The women set out on a march to Versailles in the hopes to get bread because it was too expensive for them to buy and after two decades of poor cereal harvests, drought, cattle disease, and skyrocketing bread prices the common folk had begun to starve. They were armed with pitchforks and pikes and muskets. To the beat of a drum, the woman chanted “Bread! Bread!”- for despite the fertile French soil, the populace of Paris were starving while The King and Marie Antoinette continued to feast. -
Reign of Terror
Some historians consider the Reign of terror to have started in 1793, placing the starting date at either 5 September June or March, while some historians consider it to have begun in September 1792, or July 1789 but there is a consensus that it ended with the fall of Robespierre in July 1794
Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris -
Robespirre's execution
Robespierre was arrested in July on the 27th and was executed the next day. Robespierre was deserted by his supporters and was accused of being a tyrant. Robespierre wanted to extend emergency powers, but others felt that the emergencies were over and wanted to return to regular administration. -
13 Vendemiare
On October the fifth Bonaparte overrode Barras, who was content to let him do as he wished. Bonaparte ordered Joachim Murat, a sous-lieutenant, to ride to the plain of Sablons and to return with 40 cannons that were located there. Murat brought the cannons before the Royalists arrived and Bonaparte organized their arrangement, placing them in commanding areas with effective fields of fire. Napolean effectively won this battle and became a national hero and was promoted to Général de Division. -
Directory is overthrown
Napoleon overthrows the Directory by coup d'état, trickery, and force. Directory and the French Revolution itself came to an end with the coup d'état in which Napoléon overthrew the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate. Coup d'état is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment to replace the deposed government with another different government either civil or military. -
Napoleon's rise to power
He was born in Corsica to a relatively modest Italian family and served as an artillery officer in the French army when the French Revolution started. He rapidly rose through the ranks of the military, seizing and became a general at age 24. He was eventually given command of the Army of Italy after he suppressed a revolt from royalist insurgents. At 26 Napolean began his first military campaign and won virtually every battle. Napolean became the first Emperor of the French in 1804. -
Napolean's Fall
Napoleon led a massive army into Russia in the summer of 1812. The Russian army started retreating whenever Napoleon’s forces attempted to attack in order to drag Napoleon's troops deeper into Russia. After waiting a month Napoleon was forced to order his army to return. During the retreat, his army suffered harassment from a suddenly aggressive Russian army. At the same time, French forces were pushed from the Iberian Peninsula after more losses and Paris was captured four years later. -
Napoleon's 1st Exile
In 1812 Napoleon thought that Russia was going to form an alliance with England. He tried to invade Russia and his invasion failed. His troops retreated and most of Europe united against him. His forces gave up and he offered to step down in favor of his son. After this was rejected he abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba -
Nortiere's dule
There is a general invited to a secret meeting who is a Royalist and it turned out to be a Bonapartist meeting. He then insults the group and so it is tolerated but when the general insults the president of the group one on one when he is taken home and so the two dule using sabers. After a dramatic dule Nortiere wins and kills the general instead of it being an assassination as is commonly thought to have been the truth of what caused the general's untimely demise. -
Dante's imprisonment in the Chateou'dif
During Dante's and Mercede's betrothal feast Dantes is arrested for undisclosed reasons. He is brought before the public prosecutor, Monsieur de Villefort, and is told he is suspected of Bonapartist leanings and it is known that the letter given to him by Captain Leclere is to Napoleon. Villefort then finds that the letter discloses information about his Bonapartist father, Nortierre, and imprisons Dantes in the Chateou'dif. -
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100 Days War
The Hundred Days marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile, 20 March 1815, and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 which was 110 days. This period saw the War of the Seventh Coalition and included the Waterloo Campaign, the Neapolitan War as well as several other campaigns.
On March the 13th the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, the members of Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule -
Napolean's second exile
Napolean escaped exile and went back to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against allied forces on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. -
Dantes's escape from Chateou'dif
After Faria dies Dantes switches his body and Fari's body and lies in the body bag thinking that the Chateou'dif has a graveyard. He is then thrown out into sea since there actually is no graveyard and escapes death and swims to an island. Promptly a fishing boat is smashed against the rocks and Dantes pretends to be a surviving sailor from the wreck and is rescued by a group of smugglers as they pass by.
