Detox

The French Revolution

By ratwyfe
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    The National Assembly

    This was the first governing body of the French Revolution. Created amidst the turmoil of the Estates-General that Louis XVI called in 1789.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    France´s Third Estate voted "not to separate and reassemble whenever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established."
  • The Storming of the Bastille

    French peasants stormed the French armory, fortress, and prison known as the Bastille for weapons and to free political prisoners.
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    The Great Fear

    This was a general panic at the beginning of the French Revolution caused by rumors of the aristocracy having a plot to starve out the lower class.
  • Declaration of Rights of the Man and of the Citizen

    This was a civil rights document written during the French Revolution, drafted in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.
  • Louis XVI Attempts to Flee France

    Louis XVI and his family went on a royal Flight to Varennes to try and escape the oncoming revolution.
  • Legislative Assembly Formed

    The Legislative Assembly was formed to make laws between the times of the National Constituent Assembly and the National Convention.
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    Reign of Terror

    This was a period of the French Revolution when several massacres and public executions took place in response to the revolution.
  • French Directoire Created

    The French Revolutionary government set up a directory that included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif.
  • Concordat of 1801 Reached

    This was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and the religious authorities in Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic church in France.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    This was a land deal between the United States and France in which the United States acquired about 827,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi River.
  • Napoleonic Code

    French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions, It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
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    Continental System

    A blockade during the Napoleonic wars designed to weaken Great Britain by making trade inaccessible for them.
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    Invasion of Russia

    Napoleon and his army attempted to invade and take over Russia, but were extremely unsuccessful and suffered huge losses.
  • Napoleon's Exile to Elba

    Napoleon is banished by the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Meditteranean island of Elba.
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    100 Days

    This marked the period between Napoleon's exile on the island of Elba and his return to Paris.
  • Exile to St. Helena

    Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Helena and dies there.