Periods of the Revolution
What is the Republican period?
This Corsican aspiring romance author and historian became dictator and later Emperor of France, conquering most of the continent.
This device was nicknamed the "National Razor" and the "National Haircut" for its effectiveness.
What is the guillotine?
This event saw a mob march on a military fortress in Paris to seize ammunition and free political prisoners.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This insane Irishman thought he was Jesus Christ, St. Louis, and Julius Caesar, and was freed during the Storming of the Bastille.
Who is Major Whyte?
This period occurred once the Jacobins and the Committee of Public Safety assumed control over the French government.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The Gregorian calendar was officially abolished under the Jacobins, replaced with a calendar that had this many days per week.
What is 10?
This event was called on May 5th, 1789, and hadn't been convened since the 1640s.
What is the Estates-General?
When Robespierre was captured, he attempted to do what to himself, only to be executed a day later?
Shoot himself in the jaw.
What is the Directory?
Who is the Empress Josephine Beauharnais?
This pseudo-religion was created by the Jacobins to replace the Catholic Church, with heavy deist influence.
What is the Cult of the Supreme Being?
This king was executed by the Jacobins for treason and crimes against the people of France.
Who is King Louis XVI?
What is the Festival of the Supreme Being?
This period occurred after a second coup by this Corsican army officer, initially proclaiming himself Consul before being crowned Emperor.
What is the Napoleonic era?
This man, known as the Thunderer, led the mob that stormed the Bastille. He was part of the Jacobins, but later left after being forced out of the CdSP.
Who is Georges Danton?
This legal code was created to replace the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and was spread to everywhere that France had conquered.
What is the Code Napoleon?
This island was Napoleon's first vacation away from France, and is still used today to describe someone going very far away for an embarrassing reason.
What is Elba?
Napoleon's conquest of Egypt caused Europeans to start snorting what?
This period happened before the Revolution, and is French for "old order".
What is the ancien regime?
This man partnered with proto-socialist Henri de Saint-Simon to buy Notre Dame Cathedral out from the Jacobin government and later became foreign minister under the French Empire.
Who is Talleyrand?
What is the Continental System?
Napoleon's final loss occurred here, after the inconclusive battle of Quatres Bras.
What is Waterloo?
Who is Mr. Miller?