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PBHS French History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| commemorating Napoleon's victories | Arc de Triomphe |
| President of France two times, and started the Free French Movement in WWII | de Gaille, Charles |
| He was falsely accused of betraying French Military secrets, and Zola's book J'accuse centers on the mistreatment of him | Dreyfus, Alfred |
| Radical party during the French Revolution led by Robespierre | Jacobins |
| Led French against English during the Hundred Years' War; burned at the stake as a witch | Joan of Arc |
| French King (1610-1643), greatly influenced by chief minister Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII |
| "Sun King"; built Versailles palace; "I am the State" | Louis XIV |
| Last King of France | Louis XVI |
| King of France (1830-1848); the revolution of 1848 led to his abdication | Louis Phillipe |
| stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday | Marat |
| French Queen who said,"Let them eat cake" | Marie Antoinette |
| Corsican-born; exiled to Elba; ruled for the Hundred Days before his defeat at Waterloo; exiled to Saint Helena and died in 1821 | Napoleon I (Bonaparte) |
| Head of the Vichy Government | Petain, Henri |
| Govt. of France after German occupation | Vichy Government |
| against King Louis XVI; storming of the Bastille on July 14th 1789 and was the first act of the revolution; King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined; reign of terror followed; allowed Napoleon to rise to power and emerge as dictator in 1799 | French Revolution |
| Cardinal Mazarin | Louis XIV |