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100
The monarch who lost power in 1792.
Who was Louis XVI?
100
The war that left France in a financial crisis prior to the French Revolution.
What is the Seven Years' War?
100
The Holy Roman Emperor who supported his brother-in-law, Louis XVI.
Who was Leopold II?
100
The previous name of the National Assembly?
What is the Estates-General?
100
The monarch who gave birth to Marie Antoinette.
Who was Maria Theresa?
200
The Queen at the time preceding the French Revolution
Who was Marie Antoinette?
200
The movement, alongside the ineptitude of the King and the decadence of the aristocracy, that fueled the French Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
The incumbent Comptroller-General of Finance preceding the French Revolution.
Who was Charles Alexandre de Calonne?
200
The first time the Estates-General met since 1614.
What is year of 1789?
200
Let them eat cake.
What is the phrase commonly attributed to Marie-Antoinette?
300
The king title that the King of France also owned at the outbreak of the French Revolution.
What is the King of Navarre?
300
A declaration issued by the National Assembly on August 27, 1789 that proclaimed all men were born and remain free and equal and rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
300
The American minister to France in 1785-1789.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
The group that began the National Assembly.
What is the Third Estate?
300
The state whose Declaration of Rights influenced France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
What is Virginia?
400
The titular French monarch born in 1785.
Who is Louis XVII?
400
The assembly whose failure to endorse Calonne's proposals caused Louis XVI to assemble the Estates-General.
What is the Assembly of Notables?
400
President of the National Constituent Assembly in 1791.
Who was Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau?
400
July 9, 1789.
What is the date the National Assembly was replaced?
400
The American who left France July 12, 1785.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
August 13, 1792.
What is the date Louis XVI was imprisoned?
500
July 14, 1789.
When was the storming of the Bastille?
500
The man whose 'What is the Third Estate?' became the de facto manifesto of the French Revolution.
Who was Abbé Sieyès?
500
June 20, 1789.
What is the date of the Tennis Court Oath?
500
Handkerchiefs must be square.
What is a law signed in 1785?
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