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Palace of Versailles built
His successor, Louis XIV, expanded the château into a palace that went through several expansions in phases from 1661 to 1715. -
When King Louis moved the capital of France from Paris to Versailles
hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris. -
When King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette
The marriage was an arranged marriage that sealed an alliance between France and Austria. The French public was initially skeptical of the marriage. -
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.