Events (early rev)
The event when peasants run amok in the countryside and burn the homes of the nobility.
What is the Great Fear?
THIS IS THE GENERAL who took over France and became "emperor".
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
THIS GROUP of people is the First Estate in 18th century France.
Who are the Clergy?
The French learned from THIS FOREIGN WAR that the formation of a republic is possible, but difficult.
What is the American Revolution?
The QUEEN OF FRANCE during the French Revolution.
When you are wealthy but not noble, you are THIS.
What is Bourgeois?
The Tennis Court Oath is when the National Assembly vowed to do THIS.
What is continue to meet until a constitution is drafted?
This is the PERIOD OF TIME when many French citizens are executed via guillotine for being traitors of the Revolution.
What is the Terror?
THE NAME OF THE DOCUMENT written by the National Assembly in the Tennis Court. It was based on a lot of Enlightenment ideas from Locke, Montesquieu, and Beccaria.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
THIS FRENCH KING weakened the treasury and had an affair with a common woman (who wasn't noble) and thus was embroiled in scandal and left France in debt.
Who was Louis XV?
The KING OF FRANCE during the French Revolution.
Who was Louis XVI?
The working class who wear long pants, because they are "without knee-britches".
Who are the Sans-Culotte?
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Category: Cities
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The royal family tried to escape out of France, but they were caught in THIS CITY, east of Paris.
When the king swears to uphold the Constitution, France then became THIS TYPE OF GOVERNMENT.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
After Napoleon is defeated, France begins a new era of THIS. In other words, it is the era of the Bourbon _____________________, because a Bourbon monarch is once again ruling France.
What is a restoration?
Members of THIS GROUP were upset at the beginning of the French Revolution because they paid the most in taxes, yet had the least representation.
Who were the Third Estate or the Bourgeoisie?
The GROUP OF PEOPLE called together by the King of France to help solve France's economic troubles.
Who were the Estates General?
Younger Leftist POLITICAL CLUB who believed if kings of Europe were declaring a war on France, they should declare a war of people against kings. So they declared war on Austria (and lost). They then divided into Girondin / Mountain.
Who were the Jacobin?
When the Estates General was called, the group struggled with how to vote. The TWO OPTIONS for how to vote were these.
The small, democratic group that took power at the end of the Revolution, but was disappointing and led to Napoleon's take-over is called THIS.
Before he became emperor, Napoleon first took THIS TITLE, borrowed from the executive branch of the Roman Republic.
What is consul?
Today, these WRITTEN LAWS remain in some form in many countries across Europe as a legacy of the French Revolutionary era.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
THIS MAN was the most famous Jacobin revolutionary. He argued in support of the Terror, then died via guillotine.
Who was Robespierre?
The French term for the "old age," meaning the ways of Europe prior to the French Revolution. In other words, feudalism and absolutism.
What is the Ancien Regime?
Women marched FROM HERE TO HERE to demand lower prices for food.
What is from Paris to Versailles?
The National Convention formed THIS GROUP to deal with threats inside and outside of France. THIS GROUP enacted reforms such as continuing the Reign of Terror, forming a Planned Economy, and de-Christianizing French people.
Who was the Committee for Public Safety?
This is the NAME of the royal palace in Paris. This is where the French king and queen could live when they had to leave Versailles. At this point, historians argue that they were "prisoners of the Revolution".
What is the Tuileries Palace?
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Category: Religion
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This DOCUMENT forced Catholic clergy to sign an oath of allegiance to the nation of France, thus moving their allegiance away from Rome.
SHE was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen.
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
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Category: Things
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This is the French term meaning "Letters of Grievance" - the documents brought my members of the Estates General to Versailles.