1. French Revolution
The Bourbon king Louis XIV, the powerful monarch of the early seventeenth century (1661-1715), had been the most successful absolute monarch in history, but his grandiose imperial ambitions led to massive military failure and had left his country in economic ruin. ... But Napoleon's undoing was his ambition to expand the new order and ideas of the revolution and bring Europe under his benevolent control. ...
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