People of the French Revolution
This 11-year old became the dauphin of France in 1765.
Louis XVI
By the end of the summer of 1789 these two groups had lost all of their privileges in France.
What are the clergy and the nobles?
This event on July 14 1789 was a pivotal moment in the French Revolution and included an attack on a building considered a representation of the Monarchy.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Which Estate did King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette belong to?
What is the First Estate?
This county in the Middle East recently had its own revolution.
This Austrian teenager (14!) was married to Louis XVI and became Queen of France when she did.
Marie Antoinette
What is one of wars that contributed to the financial ruin of the French Empire.
What is the Seven Years War?
What is the American Revolution?
This period of time saw over 40,000 people beheaded in France.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Which estate included the clergy?
What is the First Estate?
This holiday is the day after Christmas; it was originally set up to donate gifts to those in need.
Boxing Day
This man created the Committee on Public Safety and led the Reign of Terror.
Robespierre (Maximilien)
This philosophical movement led to the ideas in the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen.
What is the Enlightenment?
This event in 1789 included a march to Versailles to demand bread and political reforms
What is the Women's March to Versaille?
This is the system that existed in France before the Revolution.
What is feudalism?
What is the Estate System, Absolute Monarchy, Monarchy, Divine Right of Kings?
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This word was chosen by Oxford dictionary as its word of the year for 2024.
What is brain rot?
This woman wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen in 1791
Who is Olympe De Gouges?
Who are the people?
The Third Estate declared itself this in 1789
What is the National Assembly?
This is the Estate to which the bourgeoisie belonged.
What is the Third Estate?
Brian Thompson, the CEO of this healthcare company was murdered in early December
UnitedHealthcare
This person crowned himself emperor of France in 1804
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This is the type of government that was proposed after the Monarchy was abolished in France.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
The Third Estate vowed "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" in what Oath?
This is the main crime Louis XVI and other counter revolutionaries were accused of during their "trials" before they were beheaded?
What is treason or high treason?
What two surviving members of the Beatles performed in London this week?
Who are Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr?