Louis XIV - Restoration Flashcards

1
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How old was Louis XIV when he became king?

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4 years, 8 mos.

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2
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What was his childhood nickname?

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Fronde- (slingshot)

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3
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Louis XIV built Versailles, how did he “deactivate” the nobility?

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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.

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4
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Who was Louis XIV advisor?

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Jules Marazin then Colbert for 25 years

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5
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What did Louis XIV revoke in October 1685?

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The Edict of Nantes which protected the Protestants rights

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6
Q

The Sun King

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Louis XIV

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7
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Baron de Riquet planned and promoted

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

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8
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What was the purpose of Chateau at Versailles?

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

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9
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1643-1715

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

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10
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honnête homme

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cultivated man

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11
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1715-1774

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Louis XV, The Enlightenment

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12
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1720

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Last major plague epidemic enters France through Marseilles

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13
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1756-63

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

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14
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Hobbies included making locks, masonry and hunting

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Louis XVI

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15
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1774-1793 King & Queen

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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16
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1776

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American War of Independence, Marquis de Layfeyette

17
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Jan 21, 1793 Place de la Révolution in Paris

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Beheading of Louis XVI

18
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1789-1800

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Revolution

19
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July 14, 1789

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Storming of Bastille prison

20
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1792

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First Republic

21
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1793-94

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The Terror (Robespierre)

22
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1800 Consulat-

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General Napoleon Bonaparte is first counsel

23
Q

1800-1815

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Napoleonic wars

24
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1804

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Empire (Napoleon crowns himself emperor)

25
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1814 Napoleon abdicates, exiled to

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island of Elba

26
Q

Napoleon loses to English

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Waterloo 1815

27
Q

1815-1830/1848?

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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

28
Q

Inventor of Guillotine

A

Dr. Joseph Guillotin

29
Q

Napoleon wrote this set of rules

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Civil Code

30
Q

Napoleon contributed much to France including

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

31
Q

Victor Hugo wrote

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Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame

32
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Negative things about Napoleon

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