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What is absolutism?
Unlimited rule by one man
Who were the Huguenots?
French Calvinist protestants
Complete the sentence:
French kings had never been as strongly controlled by medieval _________ as other European monarchs have been.
popes
Montesquieu, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rosseau were some of the chief thinker of...
The Enlightenment
Who was the first protestant king of France?
Henry of Navarre / Henry IV
When Napoleon empire was at its height, how much of Europe did he control?
Virtually all of continental Europe
What has been called Napoleon worse enemy?
Russian winter
How many civil wars were fought in France in the last forty years of the 16th century?
9
What become the slogan of France and Western Europe?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
What club wanted the Revolution to be even more extreme?
The radical Jacobin club
What idea was taking hold in France on the eve of the protestant reformation?
That the king was the same as the State (the government), and that the State was the same as the church.
What was France first written constitution called?
The Constitution of 1791
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About how many nobles in France were Huguenots?
Nearly half of the nobles in France
How did Henry of Navarre escape death?
By vowing to change his religion
What czar withdrew Russia from the continental system?
Czar Alexander I
Who was the wife of Louis XVI?
Marie Antoinette
How did Napoleon retaliate against czar Alexander I?
He tried to invade Russia
Who became king of France after Napoleon was exiled?
Louis XVIII
What was the purpose of the Congress of Vienna?
To redraw the map of Europe
Who was the most influential man at the Congress of Vienna?
Prince von Metternich
What was the immediate cause of the Franco-Prussian War?
The question of who should succeed to the Spanish crown
What action did the Third Estate take on June 17, 1789?
It declared itself to be the National Assembly
Who was known as th "Prince of Diplomats"
Prince von Metternich
What queen mother attempted to rule for her young sons from 1559 to 1589?
Catherine of Médicis