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The youngest and longest-reigning king in history
The "Sun King" |
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| Ruled for 4-year old king Louis XIV |
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| Government by men who sit at desks |
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| The French noble playground and greatest works of architecture in the Modern Age |
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| Louis XIV's minister of finance |
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| Founded Quebec, the first permanent French colony in North America |
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| Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet |
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| Explored the Mississippi River |
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| Robert Cavalier de la Salle |
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| Claimed the entire Mississippi River for France and named Louisiana for Louis XIV |
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| Established the status quo ante bellum (the existing state before the war) |
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| War of the Spanish Succession |
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| The most costly war of Louis XIV's reign |
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| France's most notable victory along the Danube River |
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| Ended the War of the Spanish Succession and established the balance of power concept |
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| The Father of English Enlightenment |
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| The Father of French Romanticism |
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| An editor of the Encyclopedia who attempted to reorganize all human knowledge from the perspective of rationalism |
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| Weak ruler who had a great interest in personal pleasure |
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| the system of government and way of life in pre-Revolutionary France |
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| Grossly unfit to be king and reigned during the revolution |
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| First, Second, and Third estate rulers |
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| Clergy, nobility, and middle class to peasant |
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| The Third Estate making themselves the official representative body of all the people of France |
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| Vow taken by the National Assembly to continue meeting until a national constitution had been written |
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| Wife of King Louis XVI who told him that the National Assembly was a threat |
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| A Parisian mob stormed the Bastille and killed 98 people |
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| The National Assembly ended the lord's privileges over the peasants and abolished feudalism |
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| A French extremist revolutionary group |
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| Constituent Assembly or Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
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| Attempted to justify the confiscation of church property and establishment of a Church of France |
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| France's first written Constitution |
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| Representatives who supported the king and wanted the Revolution to go no further |
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| Radicals who wanted the Revolution in France to go further |
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| One of the most important series of wars when the French Constituent Assembly declared war on Austria |
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| A prominent member of the Jacobian Club who became the most influential man in French government |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| 12 men holding extensive police and judicial powers who tried to quell the growing anarchy |
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| Many politically influential people, including the queen, were guillotined. |
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| A religion that rejected Scripture and professed God is an Impersonal Being |
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| The fifth government of France established after the fall of Robespierre |
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A power hungry man who had gained great prestige through his military genius.
"The little corporal" |
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| Set up by Napoleon on November 9, 1799 |
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| An election in which the people express their will |
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| Set of codes most famous since the Romans |
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| The British navy defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet on October 21, 1805 |
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| Considered to be the greatest naval hero the world has ever known |
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| The greatest victory of Napoleon's career |
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| 18 year old daughter of an Austrian emperor who married Napoleon after he divorced Josephine |
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| Napoleon's attempt to defeat England by forbidding British trade |
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| Russian leader who started to trade with England in defiance to Napoleon |
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| The start of the Russian campaign |
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| Battle of Leipzig (Battle of Nations) |
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| The combined forced of Europe defeated Napoleon in October 1813 |
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| The island where Napoleon was exiled |
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| Napoleon met his final defeat in June 17, 1815 |
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| English general who crushed the French army and ended the "Hundred days" of Napoleon's final reign |
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| The second island Napoleon was exiled to |
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