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 Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI became a symbol of royal excess and was executed by guillotine in 1793?
Marie Antoinette
What cash crop, cultivated in the French Caribbean with enslaved African labor, made colonies like Martinique and Guadeloupe extremely profitable?
Sugar cane
What term describes the system in which Louis XIV, the Sun King of France, centralized all legislative, executive, and judicial power in his own hands?
Absolute monarchy
What medical theory, championed by Louis Pasteur, proposed that microorganisms are the cause of diseases?
Germ theory
Who painted the iconic French Romantic masterpiece Liberty Leading the People, showing Marianne leading a revolutionary crowd?
Eugène Delacroix