Louis XIV - Restoration Flashcards
How old was Louis XIV when he became king?
4 years, 8 mos.
What was his childhood nickname?
Fronde- (slingshot)
Louis XIV built Versailles, how did he “deactivate” the nobility?

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.

Who was Louis XIV advisor?

Jules Marazin then Colbert for 25 years
What did Louis XIV revoke in October 1685?
The Edict of Nantes which protected the Protestants rights
The Sun King
Louis XIV
Baron de Riquet planned and promoted
The Canal du Midi which joined the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
What was the purpose of Chateau at Versailles?
Make the king seem more God-like and separated nobility from commoners
1643-1715
Louis XIV, constant wars with Netherlands, Spain and England. Versailles becomes center of court life, royal academies control science, art, music, architecture and literature.
honnête homme
cultivated man
1715-1774
Louis XV, The Enlightenment
1720
Last major plague epidemic enters France through Marseilles
1756-63
7 years war- France loses Canada, India to England, lands west of Mississippi to Spain
Hobbies included making locks, masonry and hunting
Louis XVI
1774-1793 King & Queen
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1776
American War of Independence, Marquis de Layfeyette
Jan 21, 1793 Place de la Révolution in Paris
Beheading of Louis XVI
1789-1800
Revolution
July 14, 1789
Storming of Bastille prison
1792
First Republic
1793-94
The Terror (Robespierre)

1800 Consulat-
General Napoleon Bonaparte is first counsel
1800-1815
Napoleonic wars
1804
Empire (Napoleon crowns himself emperor)

1814 Napoleon abdicates, exiled to
island of Elba
Napoleon loses to English

Waterloo 1815
1815-1830/1848?
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
Inventor of Guillotine

Dr. Joseph Guillotin
Napoleon wrote this set of rules
Civil Code
Napoleon contributed much to France including
Grande Écoles, promoted engineering, education, lycées, better roads, buildings, infrastructure, made taxes more logical
Victor Hugo wrote
Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame
Negative things about Napoleon
gets all press censored, declared self emperor, forced people into army