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Louis XVI Comes to Power
Louis Auguste became Louis XVI, with the death of his grandfather Louis XV -
Estates General
Estates General is a meeting of all the Estates representatives. They held a meeting to decide whether the 2nd Estates should pay taxes. -
Locked Out
Louis XVI locked the 3rd Estate out of the Estates General. The 3rd Estate didn't think it was fir that they paid most of the taxes and the had less money than both estates -
Swedish Mercernaries
Louis XVI calls in Swedish Mercenaries to protect because he thinks that his soldiers would turn on him. Most of his soldiers were in the 3rd estate which he locked out of the Estates General. -
March to Versailles
Women that work in the fish market walk to Versailles to get Marie Antoinette's head. They tear up her bed when they do not find her -
The Move
Louis XVI and the royal family are forced to move to Tuileries Palace so they can see how the people of there country are struggling. They become prisoners of their own people -
Share of Power
Louis XVI has to share power with the National Assembly. He realizes that he has lost all his power when he has to sign The Declaration of the Rights of Man. -
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Massacres
The Sans-Culottes go into the prison and start the mass murdering of all nobles, clergymen, and all others considered traitors -
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The Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI is put on trial for treason because he calls in help from other countries and he tries to flee. They then put Louis XVI on the guillotine and execute him. He has a cheering crowd at his execution. And his execution was the end on the Bourbon Monarchy. -
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Power of Robespierre
Robespierre and his Jacobins take over power and begin ruling France. The time that Robespierre is in power The Reign of Terror begins and lots of people die. -
Unsuspected Murder
Georges Danton, supposedly Robespierre's right hand man, is killed for challenging Robespierre's idea for the revolution -
The End of Marat
Charlotte Corday tricks Marat into thinking she has a list of traitors for him to read. While he is reading Corday stabs him in the back. Corday is killed on the Guillotine and Marat is idolized. Corday is a hero to those against the revolution. -
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The End of Robespierre
Robespierre is arrested in the middle of the night while he is in bed. They put him in the cell and give him a gun so that he can kill himself. He misses his head and shoots of his jaw. later on they put him on a guillotine and that is the end of the Reign Of Terror. -
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The Directory
The Directory takes power after the National Convention is disbanded. They then ask army general Napoleon Bonaparte for help because he has had so much success on the war front -
Napoleonic Code
Gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights. It codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. -
The Coronation
First Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
Exile to Elba
The dethroned Emperor left France for the isle of Elba, where he was exiled under the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau. Napoleon would be allowed to rule Elba, which had 12,000 inhabitants. Napoleon was under the constant watch of Austrian and French guards. -
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Congress of Vienna
Reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It began in September 1814, five months after Napoleon I’s first abdication and completed its “Final Act” in June 1815, shortly before the Waterloo campaign and the final defeat of Napoleon. The settlement was the most-comprehensive treaty that Europe had ever seen. Decided whether or not France should pay for the war, how much they should pay, and which lands go to who -
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100 Days
March 20, 1815 is the date on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba, and July 8, 1815, the date of the return of Louis XVIII to Paris. Napoleon made liberal changes to the Imperial Constitution. Napoleon’s ‘Hundred Days’ would be brought to an end only by the battle of Waterloo in June, which forced his abdication and subsequently ensured the restoration of Louis to the French throne in July.
