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Louis XV
neglected state affairs, 'After me the deluge'
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Louis XVI
1774-1793, Marie Antoinette, beheaded
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Marie Antoinette
Austrian, Louis XVI's wife, beheaded
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Abbe Sieyes
leader of the 3rd estate, clergyman, National Assembly- 1789
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La Fayette
leader of Armed National Guard, later wanted to stop
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Sans-culottes
petty burgeoisie, got poor during the revolution, extreme left
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Francis I
Marie Antoinette's brother, king of Austria, threatened to attack France
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Georges Danton
leader of the Paris Commune and Jacobin Club
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Marat
leader of Jacobine Club, stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday
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Brissot
leader of Girondists, the moderate club
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Robespierre
leader of Jacobins, practised terror
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Napoleon
French emperor from 1804, set up military dictatorship, expanded France's territories, exiled to Elba
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Alexander I
king of Russia in the Napoleonic Age, Peace of Tilst divided Europe bw. him and Napoleon
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Maria Lujza
daughter of Francis I, wife of Napoleon
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Horatio Nelson
defeated the French fleet in 1805 at Trafalgar
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Louis XVIII
younger brother of Loius XVI, unpopular king of France
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Extreme right
wanted to restore Old Regine, emigrés, priests
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moderates
sat in between, wanted some more reforms but not so many
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radicals
wanted to set up a republic, sat on the left, against the king
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extreme left
sans-culottes
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conservatives
opposed new changes, sat on the right, trusted the king in favour of Constitutional Monarchy
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First Commune
extreme left oganisation with representatives
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Jacobines
extreme left, leader: Robespierre
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Plebeians
extreme left, leaders: Marat + Danton
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Jacobine dictatorship
by Robespierre from July 1793-July 1794
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Peasant uprising
at Vendée because of forced conscription
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États-Generaux in Versailles, by Louis XVI
1789
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Third Estate -> National Assembly
1789
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Tennis Court Oath (after locked out from meeting hall, 3rd estate vowed to stand foot until constitution)
1789
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1789 July 14
Parisian mobs stormed the Bastille
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1789 October
women's march to Versailles - king's family-> Paris
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1789 August 4
National Assembly swept away ancient priviliges of nobility and clergy
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1789 August 27
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (passed equal justice, freedom of speech and religion)
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limited monarchy, 83 departments
1791
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liberal burgeoisie constitution, inspiration is Engalnd, 3 branches
1791
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king tried to escape to Austrian Netherlands
1791
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Funeral March of Monarchy
1791
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Marsfield mob against Armed National Guard - turning point
1791
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1791 August
Declaration of Pilmitz (king of Prussia + Habsburg monarch <-> France with militari intervention
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1792 April 20
France declared war against Austria
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Louis + Marie Antoinette were imprisoned, Legislative Assembly became National Convention
1792
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1st coalition of Britain + Spain + Portugal + Prussia + Austria
1792
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1793 January 21
Louis XVI executed
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Robespierre formed Comittee of Public Safety
1793
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1793 May 10
Summary Court of Justice
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Battle at Fleum (defeated Spain)
1794
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new scientific calendar
1793
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Battle of Valmy (victory over Prussia)
1792
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1792 September 21
Convent declared Republic
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1794 July 27/Thermidor 9
Robespierre executed
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new constitution put power in hands of upper burgeoisie
1795
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uprisings, sans-culottes put down
1795
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first victories of Napoleon in Italy
1796
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1799 November 9/Brumaire 18
coup d'etat
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Austria+Prussia were forced to make peace -> 1st coalition
1799
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2nd coalition -> Britain, Austria, Russia
1799
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Britain + France - Peace Treaty of Amiens
1802
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Napoleon wanted new constitution
1800
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Napoleon started conquering, Austria + part of Italy
1800
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1800-1802
treaties with Austria + Britain, concordat with the Pope
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Napoleon 1st consul for life
1802
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Napoleon was crowned emperor
1804
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absolute monarchy = French empire
1804
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Code Napoleon - abolished 3 estates, citizens were equal, he was above the law, restored slavery in colonies
1804
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3rd coalition Britain+Russia+Austria+Prussia+Sweden
1805
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Battle of Ulm (Napoleon entered Vienna)
1805
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Battle of Trafalgar (Napoleon gave up to invade Br)
1805
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Battle of Austerlitz (defeated Au+Ru)
1805
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Battle of Jena (invaded Berlin)
1806
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Battle of Friedland (invaded Russia)
1807
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Treaty of Tilsit (Napoleon - Poland, Alexander I, Ottoman Empire)
1807
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Continental blockade (cut off trade with Br)
1806
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