French Fries
The number of estates under the Ancien Regime, or old social order in France
What is three?
What's my number?
King Louis the...
XVI
16th
Clergy means what?
priests
they made up the second estate
the nobles
The First Estate was made up of these people.
The Clergy - priests, bishops
The price of this got people riled up....can you hear my tummy rumbling?
Bread
He was the leader of the Jacobin's during the most brutal period of the Revolution
Who was Maximilian Robespierre?
This was the year when it all began...
1789
This estate made up about 97% of the population
What was the third estate?
France had been doing this with Britain...and it cost them.
Going to war.
These were the three parts of the French motto
What were liberty, equality, and fraternity?
they vowed to do this in a tennis court, and it wasn't to play a friendly match.
write a constitution
This device "took a bit off the top" (well actually the whole head)
the guillotine
She was married to the French King
Who was Marie Antoinette?
this estate was paying the vast majority of the taxes.
the Third Estate
This is the appropriate name for the middle period of the French Revolution, and it would be a pretty good name for a horror movie.
the Reign of Terror
This political party was the most radical of the bunch.
who were the Jacobins
This is what eventually happened to the king and queen
they were guillotined
In the last (and honestly most boring) part of the revolution, France was led by a Directory of this many men.
Five
This is where the French queen was originally from
Austria
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This is the prison that the people attacked on July 14th, 1789
the Bastille
He wound up making himself emperor of France when the revolution was all finished.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This is what you would call the craftsmen, merchants, and professionals - The middle class
the bourgeoisie
The name given to a form of government where people elect representatives to govern for them
What is a republic?