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Absolutism and the French Revolution
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Napolean as Emperor
Napolean was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. -
The French Revolution
the revolution attempted to implement orderly representative assemblies but quickly degraded into chaos and violence. -
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The Monarchy
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Storming the Bastille
An angry mob stormed in the Bastille and killed the commander. they were after the weapons that were stored there and stole them all. -
The Hundred Days
Louis XVIII spent twenty-three years in exile, from 1791 to 1814, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, and again in 1815, during the period of the Hundred Days, upon the return of Napoleon I from Elba. -
Abolished Monarchy
Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d'état, or wars. The founding of the Roman Republic is a noteworthy example. -
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The Republic
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The Terror
passed on 23 August 1793, the Law of Suspects, passed on 17 September 1793, and the Law of the Maximum, passed on 29 September 1793. The broad and centralized powers of the Committee were codified by the Law of 14 Frimaire (also known as the Law of Revolutionary Government) on 4 December 1793. -
Commitee of Public Safety
created in March 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), a stage of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of Right and Man
is a French political document that was never officially adopted. It was written by the commission that included Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just and Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles during the period of the French Revolution. -
The French Constitution
The first project of the Constitution of the French Fourth Republic also referred to the 1793 version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The 1793 document was written by Jacobins after they had expelled the Girondists. It was a compromise designed as a propaganda weapon and did not fully reflect the radicalism of the Jacobin leaders. It was never put in force. -
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The Commitee of Public Safety
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The Terror
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Napolean Military Campaign
In 1799, during Napoleon’s military campaign in Egypt, a French soldier named Pierre Francois Bouchard (1772-1832) discovered the Rosetta Stone. This artifact provided the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, a written language that had been dead for almost 2,000 years. -
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Napolean as emperor
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Napolean's Death
He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer. (During his time in power, Napoleon often posed for paintings with his hand in his vest, leading to some speculation after his death that he had been plagued by stomach pain for years.)