People and Places
Ideas and People
Proper Nouns
Motto and People
Bien Sur
100
Destroyed July 14--- Sept., 1789
What is the Bastille?
100
Ability or inability to move between classes within a lifetime.
What is 'social mobility'?
100
Military dictator who either secured or ended the decade of revolution in France in 1799 when he came to power.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
Written in August, 1789 it was a central document of the revolution, applying ideas from the Enlightenment to politics.
What is the 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens'?
100
A Capitanieres
What is an exclusive forest or hunting ground given by right since medieval times to noble family.
200
The center of the revolutionary activity in France.
What is Paris?
200
Cahier de Doleance
What is a grievance or political demand?
200
Fallen nobleman who assisted with revolution earlier on by denouncing his fellow nobles as 'leaches and scoundrels.'
Who is Count Mirabeau?
200
Motto of the revolution.
What is 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite'!
200
Kind of crisis the monarchy faced given its income and expenses in 1788-89?
What is a financial crisis?
300
Inept monarch
Who is Louis XVI?
300
The French Roman Catholic clergy
What is the First Estate?
300
Locked out in June, 1789, who met in a Tennis Court instead?
What is the "National Assembly"?
300
Central demand of Madame B---B in her 1788 cahier.
What is 'the admission of women to the Estates-General' meeting?
300
"IX. Everyman being presumed innocent till he has been convicted, whenever his detention becomes indispensible, all rigor to him more than is necessary to secure his person ought to be against the law."
What is a line in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
400
Doctrine of monarchy's legitimacy
What is 'divine right of kings'?
400
Marie Antoinette's brother.
Who is King Leopold of Austrian Empire?
400
The vast majority of the French population, peasants, including artisans and lawyers belong to this group?
What is the 'Third Estate'?
400
Englishman who described what he saw in French countryside in 1787-9.
Who is Arthur Young?
400
The motto of the Enlightenment, according to Immanuel Kant?
What is 'Sapere Aude!' or 'Dare to Know!' ?
500
Pamphlet of revolution by Abbe Sieyes.
What is "What is the Third Estate"?
500
Bonds issued by the first revolutionary government.
What is an assignat?
500
A bourgeois banker who tried to sort out the financial affairs of the realm in 1789 but who got fired by the king.
What is Jacques Necker?
500
Wrote that government must be enacted through consent of those governed through a 'social contract.'
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
"What is a persecutor? He whose wounded pride and furious fanaticism arouse princes and magistrates against innocent men whose only crime is that of being of a different opinion."
What is a "Persecutor" according to Voltaire?
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