Before the Revolution
This rigid social system divided France into three unequal groups.
Three Estates
This device became a symbol of the Reign of Terror.
Guillotine
This was Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815.
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon came to power in 1799 during this
Coup of 18 Brumaire
This 1789 document proclaimed freedom and equality for French men.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This French king ruled for over 70 years and was known as the 'Sun King.'
King Louis XIV
This radical Jacobin leader justified terror as 'virtue.'
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon’s invasion of this country in 1812 ended in snowy disaster.
Russia
Napoleon’s first exile was to this island in the Mediterranean.
Elba
This agreement formed by the Third Estate promised to create a new constitution.
Tennis Court Oath
This term describes France's political and social system before the Revolution.
Ancien Régime
This 12-man group held emergency powers during the Terror.
Committee of Public Safety
In 1805, Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at this battle.
Battle of Austerlitz
This battle in 1813 was Napoleon’s largest defeat before Waterloo.
Battle of Leipzig
This Napoleonic reform unified French law.
Napoleonic Code
The financial crisis was partly due to France’s involvement in this American event.
American Revolution
This political club pushed for the execution of the king and became dominant during the Terror.
The Jacobins
This 1808–1814 war in Spain and Portugal drained Napoleon’s army.
Peninsular War
This 1815 event marked Napoleon’s dramatic return to power after escaping exile.
Hundred Days
This agreement restored Catholicism in France under Napoleon.
Concordat of 1801
This lavish royal palace symbolized royal excess and inequality.
Palace of Versailles
This phase ended with Robespierre's execution in 1794.
Reign of Terror
Napoleon lost this 1813 battle to the Sixth Coalition in Germany.
Battle of Leipzig
Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815 happened here.
Battle of Waterloo
This declaration by Olympe de Gouges demanded equal rights for women during the Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen