9 week exam 2 Flashcards
called himself the sun king
Louis XIV
founded Quebec (first prominent France colony)
Samuel De Champlaign
government by men who sit at desks
bureaucracy
used to entertain and distract nobles
palace of versailles
ended the war of spanish succession
Treaty of Utrecht
time where philosophy changed the thinking of france
Age of Enlightenment
father of french romanticsm
rousseau
father of the enlightenment
voltaire
said after me the deluge
Louis XV
king at beginning of french revolution
Louis XVI
France social classes
estates
start of french revolution
July 14, 1789
vow to meet until constitution is written
tennis court oath
Frances first constitution
1791
Constituent Assembly was divided into 3 groups.
left
right
center
led committee of public safety
Robespierre
executed by guillotine
Louis XVI
rejects scripture; views God as impersonal
deism
became dictator of France after the french revolution
Napolean
Napolean sold ___ to US
Louisiana territory
Napolean’s accomplishment
concordat
England defeated Napoleon’s navy in the Mediterranean Sea
Battle of Trafalgar
greatest naval hero
Lord Horratio Nelson
Napoleans’s greatest military victory
Battle of Austerlitz