French History Trivia
From Joan of Arc’s fiery courage to Napoleon’s self-crowning, prove you’re more than just a baguette in French History.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Which peasant girl convinced Charles VII to let her lead French forces against the English, ultimately helping break the Siege of Orléans?
Joan of Arc
Which French monarch, whose 72-year reign saw the construction of the Palace of Versailles, was nicknamed “the Sun King”?
Louis XIV
This Corsican-born general won Italian campaigns, led a coup in 1799, and crowned himself emperor in 1804. Who was he?
Napoleon Bonaparte
On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed which Parisian fortress prison, seizing its gunpowder and arms and igniting the French Revolution?
Bastille
Which document, adopted on August 26, 1789, by France’s National Assembly during the early French Revolution, proclaimed rights like liberty and equality?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen