Kings of France
First protestant King of France
Henry IV
Which Estate declared itself as the National Assembly?
Third
What group of people paid half of their income in taxes?
Peasants
Who did Napoleon establish the Continental System to shut off trade with?
England
Which edict allowed French Protestants to worship in certain territories?
Edict of Nantes
Who commanded the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Lord Nelson
Reigned over France for seventy years
Louis XIV
What was the French castle stronghold stormed by the people of Paris in 1789?
the Bastille
The nobility of France made up which estate?
Second
Which edict allowed French Protestants to worship in public?
Edict of January
The immediate cause of the Franco-Prussian War was the question who would succeed the _____ throne.
Spanish
Prophesied France's Doom
Louis XV
What French version of Parliament grew weaker during the Hundred Years' War?
Estates-General
What island was Napoleon first exiled to?
Elba
When the National Assembly ended the lord's privileges of collecting land taxes, what did it attempt to abolish?
Feudalism
Battle of Waterloo
What radical group wanted to take the French Revolution to the next extreme?
Jacobin Club
What are French Calvinist Protestants called?
Huguenots
St. Helena
What kind of government was established with France's first written constitution?
Constitutional Monarchy
What British commander led the allied troops at Napoleon's final defeat?
Duke of Wellington
Reestablished as king after Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XVIII
What is the oath declared by the National Assembly during the French Revolution?
Tennis Court Oath
What is the French term for middle class?
Bourgeoisie
What country withdrew from Napoleon's Continental System?
Russia
What edict did Louis XIV revoke that caused many Protestants to flee France?
Edict of Nantes
What French leader was forced to surrender to Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War?
Napoleon III
Louis Philippe
Under whose leadership did the "Reign of Terror" begin?
What prominent family led the Catholic forces of France against French Protestants?
Guise
What ended the lord's privileges of collecting land taxes?
August 4 Decrees
What other name was given to the Battle of Nations where the combined forces of Europe defeated Napoleon?
Battle of Leipzig
Who was forced to flee to England because of the July Rebellion?
Charles X
Which group executed Louis XVI as one of their first things they did when they got in power?
National Convention
What name was given to the massacre of thousands of French Protestants on August 24, 1572?
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
What was the name of the government that Napoleon established?
The Consultate
1791
What treaty established the existing state of things before the War of the League of Augsburg?
Treaty of Ryswick
Who was the cardinal that ruled for Louis XIII
Richelieu
What magnificent palace did Louis XIV build mainly for French nobility?
Versailles
In what year did Napoleon meet his final defeat.
1815
After the Second Republic was proclaimed, what revolution broke out shaking the confidence in the new republic?
June Days
In what year did the British navy defeat the combined French and Spanish navies at the Battle of Trafalgar?
1805