French Revolution, Absolutism, Napolean Bonaparte
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- absolutism
- having absolute power
- balance of power
- several nations combined their power to equal the power of another
- battle of trafalgar
- 1805
- battle of waterloo
- june 15, 1815
- bourgeoisie
- middle class with wealth but no political power
- burial place
- les invalides en Paris
- consulate established by napolean
- 1799
- country that napolean was never able to conquer
- england
- declaration of the rights of man
- august 27, 1789
- directory established and ended
- 1799-1815
- divine right of kings
- God placed them in this position and they don't have to answer to anyone but God
- emigres
- nobility that fled france
- first consul became permanent and hereditary
- 1802
- france's most famous absolute monarch
- louis XIV
- group called to versailles in may of 1789
- estates general
- group that pledged the tennis court oath
- national assembly
- henry IV's chief minister
- duke of sully
- henry IV's name before he became king
- henry of navarre
- invasion of russia
- june of 1812
- island on which napolean was born
- corsica
- island to which finally exiled
- st. helena
- island to which napolean was finally exiled
- les invalides in pairs
- island where he was exiled in 1812
- elba
- king after napolean abdicated-both times
- louis XIII
- l'etat c'est moi
- i am the state---(france)
- louis XIV's financial advisor
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- louis XIV's military advisor
- francois louvois
- louis XVI was charged and found guilty of
- treason
- name of the group created when the third estate withdrew from the estates general
- national assembly
- napolean crowned emperor
- 1804
- napolean used the declaration of the rights of man
- everyone paid taxes, put money toward public works and wars, high school and university education for everyone
- napolean's coup d'etat
- 1799
- napolean's domestic policies
- allowed a plebiscite, napoleanic code, declaration of the rights of man
- napolean's foreign policies
- to defeat great britain and increase the boundaries of france
- napolean's residence
- france?
- nation in which waterloo is located?
- belgium
- old regime
- period in france before 1789, outdated and unrealistic with seriosu social, political, and economic problems
- plebiscite
- a yes or no vote
- provisional government
- temporary government, in paros (louis XVI was in versailles)support of about 97% of the population
- provisions of of the edict of nantes
- freedom of religion, freedom to hold public office, allowed them to fortify themselves
- reasons for the decline of france during the reign of louis XIV
- spending too much money, revocation of the edict of nantes, too many wars
- reasons why nations napolean conquered stopped liking him
- quartering of soldiers, fighting in his wars, paying high taxes
- regent
- one who acts as king until the true king comes of age
- scorched earth policy
- army retreats abd burns everything behind it
- storming of the bastille
- july 14, 1789
- territory sold to america to help finance napolean's wars
- louisiana purchase
- three branches of government created by the constitution of 1791
- legislative,executive, judicial
- three causes for the french revolution
- bourgeoisie unrest, social structure, financial difficulties
- treaty concluding the war of spanish succession
- treaty of urecht
- two chief ministers of louis XIII
- cardinal bichelieu and cardinal marazin
- two european nations that had absolute monarchs
- prussia and russia
- two major political groups in the legislative assembly
- moderate revolutionaries and radical revolutionaries
- two wives of napolean
- josephione beauharnais and marie-loivire of austria
- tyrannical leader of the reign of terror
- robespierre
- where napolean went to fight great britain in 1789
- meditarranean sea into the red sea to block trade routes
- wife of louis XVI
- marie antoinette
- year age of absolutism began
- 1661
- year edict of nantes passed
- 1598
- year edict of nantes revoked
- 1685
- year of the first french constitution
- 1791
- years of national convention
- 1792-95
- years of the war of spanish succession
- 1701-13