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French Revolution: Napoleon.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:18:05
Length: 5 pages (1468 words)
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French Revolution. -Louis XIV, bankrupted France with his foreign wars and his new palace, Versailles. -Louis XVI financial minister was Turgot. A man of the enlightenment, Turgot tried to tax land [mostly owned by nobles] free tariffs and get rid of the corvee. -Nobles and clergy were exempt from taxation and where against Turgot's plan to tax them. So they made Louis XVI get rid of Turgot and hire Necker, a Swiss banker -Necker financially …
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…Coalition was formed in 1813 and at the Battle of Leipzig Napoleon loses and was exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean Sea by the Congress of Vienna -Louis VIII was made King of France but Napoleon returned and retook control of France -5th Coalition was formed and in 100 days Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St. Helena, off the coast of Argentina
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