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The tennis court oath
A pledge made by the members of France's National assembly. Were they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. -
Parisians storming the Bastille
The bastille was a building that represented royal authority and this building was dead in the middle of paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
One of the basic charters of human liberties, containing the principles that inspired the French Revolution. -
Bread March
When women raid the palace, because they need food for their families, their family are starving. -
Legislative Assembly
French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war. -
Radicals fight for power and declare war
Radicals took control and executed the king. Radicals called for the election of a new legislative body called the National Convention. -
Execution of a King
King louis, was executed. He was sent to prison for life based on a conspiracy. -
Reign of Terror
The period from mid 1793 to mid 1794 when maximilian robespierre ruled france, and a lot of citizens where executed -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system; it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis -
Napoleon Bonaparte Crowned Emperor
The first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. -
The Russian Winter & Napoleon
Where there was attack France attacked russia and the army wasn't prepared they had on summer clothes and where not prepared for a russian winter. Starvation and hypothermia became a huge issue. -
Battle of Waterloo
A battle in Belgium in 1815 in which the British and Prussians defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon abdicated as emperor a few days after this final defeat, and a few weeks later he was captured and sent into exile. -
National Assembly
A French congress established by representatives of the third estate, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the french people -
The Third Estate
Is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution