This person is known for saying, "Let them eat cake."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
100
In this meeting, three groups divided by class meet and discuss laws.
What is the Estates-General?
100
This proclamation stated that no state under the French empire would trade with England.
What is the Berlin Decree?
100
In this first blood of the French Revolution, peasants mobbed against this prison to gain weapons.
What is The Storming of the Bastille?
100
Following the execution of Louis XIV, this new era washed over France in which 30,000 people lost their lives.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
A famous quote by this person is, "L'État, c'est moi." ("I am the state")
Who is Louis XIV?
200
This is what the Third Estate called themselves after being locked out of the Estates-General.
What is the National Assembly?
200
Unseen in France before, Napoleon introduced this form of education.
What is public schooling?
200
In October 1789, hordes of women waved banners and loaves of bread on bayonets to persuade the king to do this.
What is Move to Paris?
200
This device was invented for faster, more efficient, and less painful executions.
What is the guillotine?
300
The first emperor of France, and the dominant ruler of most of Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
300
After being locked out of the Estates-General, the Third Estate gathered in a sport hall and swore to this.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
300
These countries aligned against Napoleon Bonaparte after he started what came to be known as his Hundred Days Campaign.
What is Austria, Britain, Russia and Prussia?
300
During this large public event, King Louis XIV is remembered for having said, "Why do you weep, Did you think I was immortal?"
What is Louis XIV's execution?
300
Most of the victims were not nobility, but were this.
What is an unlucky commoner (every day citizens, ordinary people)?
400
Because of this man's frivolous spending and expensive wars, France fell into deep debt that only got worse over time.
Who is Louis XIV?
400
Because of this, the palace of Versailles was built while the citizens of France starved.
What is Royal Overspending?
400
Napoleon was exiled to this island, where he later escaped and came back to power, only to be exiled once more to this second island.
What is Elba and Saint Helena?
400
Louis XVI signed this document written and approved by the National Assembly which gave several individual rights and protections to the people of France, though never intended to support it.
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
400
Who inspired the guillotine?
Who is Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin?
500
"Terror is nothing other than justice."
Who is Maxmilien Robespierre?
500
This issue brought together the French General Assembly after more than one hundred years of absence.
What is taxing the nobles?
500
These are the two European countries that Napoleon did not take over.
What is England and Russia?
500
This constitution was written two years after The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and retained the monarchy.