Bastille
The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known
formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It
played an important role in the internal
conflicts of France and for most of its
history was used as a state prison by the
kings of France. The Storming of the Bastille
occurred on the afternoon of 14 July 1789 in
Paris, France, when revolutionaries stormed
and took possession of the medieval
armory, castle, and political jail known as
the Bastille. The Bastille signified royal
power in the heart of Paris at the time.
Women’s march on
Versailles
The Battle of Versailles. Women
from Paris's markets led the
March on Versailles on October 5,
1789, in response to the high price
and shortage of bread. This
became one of the most broader
phenomenon of the French
Revolution, causing the royals to
return to Paris.
French Republic
In the history of France, the First Republic,
officially the French Republic, was founded
on 21 September 1792 during the French
Revolution. The First Republic lasted until
the declaration of the First Empire on 18
May 1804 under Napoleon, although the
form of the government changed several
times
The Estates General
The Estates General or States-General were a
legislative and consultative assembly of the
several classes of French subjects in France
under the Ancien Régime. Each of the three
estates had its own assembly, which was
called and dismissed by the king.
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National Assemble
The National Assembly, which existed from 17
June 1789 to 30 September 1791, was a
revolutionary assembly formed by the
representatives of the Third Estate of the EstatesGeneral during the French Revolution; it was later
known as the National Constituent Assembly,
though the shorter form was preferred.
Louis XVI
was the last King of France before
the fall of the monarchy during the
French Revolution. He was referred
to as Citizen Louis Capet during the
four months just before he was
executed by guillotine. In 1765, upon
the death of his father, Louis,
Dauphin of France, he became the
new Dauphin.
Napeleons fall
Two years later, in the aftermath of a
disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812,
Napoleon abdicated the throne and was
exiled to the island of Elba. After a
devastating defeat at Waterloo, he abdicated
once more and was imprisoned on the
remote island of Saint Helena, where he died
at the age of 51. The Congress of Vienna was
a meeting in 1814–15 that helped rebuild
Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It began in
September 1814, five months after Napoleon
I's abdication, and concluded in June 1815,
just before the Waterloo campaign and
Napoleon's final defeat. The deal was the
most comprehensive treaty ever seen in
Europe.
Napoleon’s rise
Marie Antoinette
Napoleon, who was born on the island
of Corsica, moved quickly through the
ranks of the French military during the
French Revolution (1789-1799). He
declared himself Emperor in 1804 after
gaining political power in France in a
coup in 1799.
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France
before the French Revolution. She was born an
archduchess of Austria and was the
penultimate child and youngest daughter of
Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I.
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1755, Marie
Antoinette married the future French king Louis
XVI when she was just 15 years old. ... In 1793,
the king was executed; then, Marie Antoinette
was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes
against the French republic. She was convicted
and sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793.
Guillotine
A machine used during (and after) the French
Revolution for beheading people condemned to
death, by means of a heavy sharp blade that slid
down within vertical guides. By extension,
"guillotine" refers to any shearing machine or
instrument (such as a paper cutter, a book
trimmer, etc.)
The War with Europe
They are divided in two periods: the War
of the First Coalition (1792–97) and the
War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802).
Initially restricted to Europe, the battle
increasingly attained a global
dimension. .The triumph of the French in
these battles secured the spread of
revolutionary concepts over much of
Europe.