Louis XIV - Restoration

Question 1

How old was Louis XIV when he became king?

Answer 1

4 years, 8 mos.

Question 2

What was his childhood nickname?

Answer 2

Fronde- (slingshot)

Question 3

Louis XIV built Versailles, how did he “deactivate” the nobility?

Answer 3

he made them stay at his court, spending money on being fashionable and gambling, encouraging leisure activities so focus was off politics and funding any armees.

Question 4

Who was Louis XIV advisor?

Answer 4

Jules Marazin then Colbert for 25 years

Question 5

What did Louis XIV revoke in October 1685?

Answer 5

The Edict of Nantes which protected the Protestants rights

Question 6

The Sun King

Answer 6

Louis XIV

Question 7

Baron de Riquet planned and promoted

Answer 7

The Canal du Midi which joined the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

Question 8

What was the purpose of Chateau at Versailles?

Answer 8

Make the king seem more God-like and separated nobility from commoners

Question 9

1643-1715

Answer 9

Louis XIV, constant wars with Netherlands, Spain and England. Versailles becomes center of court life, royal academies control science, art, music, architecture and literature.

Question 10

honnête homme

Answer 10

cultivated man

Question 11

1715-1774

Answer 11

Louis XV, The Enlightenment

Question 12

1720

Answer 12

Last major plague epidemic enters France through Marseilles

Question 13

1756-63

Answer 13

7 years war- France loses Canada, India to England, lands west of Mississippi to Spain

Question 14

Hobbies included making locks, masonry and hunting

Answer 14

Louis XVI

Question 15

1774-1793 King & Queen

Answer 15

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Question 16

1776

Answer 16

American War of Independence, Marquis de Layfeyette

Question 17

Jan 21, 1793 Place de la Révolution in Paris

Answer 17

Beheading of Louis XVI

Question 18

1789-1800

Answer 18

Revolution

Question 19

July 14, 1789

Answer 19

Storming of Bastille prison

Question 20

1792

Answer 20

First Republic

Question 21

1793-94

Answer 21

The Terror (Robespierre)

Question 22

1800 Consulat-

Answer 22

General Napoleon Bonaparte is first counsel

Question 23

1800-1815

Answer 23

Napoleonic wars

Question 24

1804

Answer 24

Empire (Napoleon crowns himself emperor)

Question 25

1814 Napoleon abdicates, exiled to

Answer 25

island of Elba

Question 26

Napoleon loses to English

Answer 26

Waterloo 1815

Question 27

1815-1830/1848?

Answer 27

Restoration- rule of old men. No freedom of press, no participation in political life Louis XVI's younger bro crowned Louis XVIII-1825 dies and replaced by other bro Charles X

Question 28

Inventor of Guillotine

Answer 28

Dr. Joseph Guillotin

Question 29

Napoleon wrote this set of rules

Answer 29

Civil Code

Question 30

Napoleon contributed much to France including

Answer 30

Grande Écoles, promoted engineering, education, lycées, better roads, buildings, infrastructure, made taxes more logical

Question 31

Victor Hugo wrote

Answer 31

Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame

Question 32

Negative things about Napoleon

Answer 32

gets all press censored, declared self emperor, forced people into army