history Flashcards
“The Sun King”
Louis XIV
appointed government officials
bureaucrats
government by men who sit at desks
bureaucracy
palace used to entertain and “distract” the nobles
Palace of Versailles
17th and 19th century monarchial pursuit of unlimited power
“Age of ABsolutism
minister of finance that mobilized French economics and trade
Jean Baptiste Colbert
founded Quebec in 1608
Samuel de Champlain
explored the MS River in 1682 and claimed it for France
Robert C. De la Salle
ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Treaty of Utrecht
a time where philosophy changed the thinking of France
Age of Enlightenment
“Father of the Enlightenment”
Voltaire
“Father of French Romanticism” (Man is basically good but society is bad) “noble savage”
Rousseau
“After me the Deluge
Louis XV
French King at the beginning of the French Revolution
Louis XVI
a vow to meet until a Constitution was written
The Tennis Court Oath
storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789
The National Assembly ended French Feudalism and adopted the slogan “Liber, Equality, Fraternity, or Death”
August 4 decrees
Frances 1st Constitution created by the Constituent Assembly
Constitution of 1791
The Constitutional was replaced by this in 1792
National Convention
When Robespierre was executed
1794
rejected Scripture and viewed God as an impersonal Being revealed only in nature that must be sought through men’s reason
deism
Replaced the Committee of Public Safety
The Directory
Napoleon overthrew France’s government and established the Consulate
1799
an election in which the people express their will
Plebiscite