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It was a small country residence and, according to the Maréchal de Bassompierre, “a mere gentleman would not have been overly proud of the construction. -
Versailles before the reign of Louis was mostly used as a royal hunting lodge; but Louis had other plans for it. In 1661, -
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars -
They got married and they wouldn't touch each other -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, i -
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799 -
the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace. -
when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, -
The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place publicly at the Place de la Révolution in -
Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793. -
The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
up d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. -
he resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. -
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris -
Napoleon's invasion of Russia is one of the best studied military campaigns in history. On 24 June 1812 and the following days, the first wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the Niemen into Russia. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium -
during the February 1848 Revolution, King Louis Philippe abdicated in favour of his nine-year-old grandson, Philippe, comte de Paris.