French Monarchs
Government/Politics
Key Events
Vocabulary
Napoleon
100

The Wife of Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

100

Meeting of all three estates

Estates-General

100

A fortress that revolutionaries raided for gunpowder

The Bastille

100

The estate that 98% of France belonged to 

Third Estate

100

Napoleon made himself this in 1804

Emperor of France

200

He built the Palace of Versailles 

Louis XIV

200

Name of the constitution created in 1791

Declaration of the Rights of Man

200

When the Third Estate promised to stick together

The Tennis Court Oath

200

Name for the French Middle Class, part of the Third Estate

Bourgeois 

200

The battle where Napoleon was defeated once and for all

Waterloo

300

Marie Antoinette was from this country

Austria

300

What the Third Estate renamed themselves at the Tennis Court Oath

National Assembly

300

Caused by mass bread shortages in Paris in 1789

The Women's March on Versailles

300

A person who supported the monarchy

Royalist

300

Where Napoleon was exiled the second time

St. Helena

400

Lost his head in 1793

Louis XVI

400

The government that Napoleon overthrew

The Directory

400

France declared war against them in 1792

Austria

400

Forced to leave a place as punishment

Exile

400

Napoleon's first wife

Josephine

500

Marie Antoinette's most famous quote (supposedly)

"Let them eat cake!"

500

The National Assembly renamed themselves this after writing their new constitution

Legislative Assembly

500

The period of time directly after the Storming of the Bastille

The Great Fear

500

Relating to the medieval system of exchanging land for service and loyalty

Feudal

500

Where Napoleon was born

Corsica

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