-
This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country
-
We swear never to separate and to meet wherever circumstances require until the kingdom's Constitution is established and grounded on solid foundations.”
-
the event on July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution where a crowd of Parisians stormed and took control of the Bastille
-
all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”
-
when a crowd of over 7,000 Parisians, led by market women,
-
former king of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed by beheading by guillotine
-
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution.
-
Maximilien Robespierre was executed by guillotine on July 28, 1794, after being arrested the day
-
It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
-
Napoleon I and his wife Joséphine were crowned Emperor and Empress of the French on Sunday
-
that part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula,
-
After two days of preparation, the invasion commenced on Wednesday, 24 June [O.S. 12 June] 1812 with Napoleon's army crossing the border.
-
They exiled him to the Mediterranean island of Elba and restored the Bourbons to power.
-
suffering from recurrent abdominal pain, progressive weakness and unabating constipation.