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This is the sister of Leopold II, who said when told her people had no bread, "let them eat cake."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
100
At this time, a few liberal noblemen in the National Assembly, by prearrangement, surrendered their privileges. This is considered the end of feudalism in France.
What is "the night of August 4"?
100
This is the precursor to the National Assembly, which originally began meeting at Versailles in May 1789before retiring to a tennis court where an oath was taken.
What is The Third Estate (of the Estates General)?
100
He was the Prime Minister of England, who did not care what France did domestically as long as they did not occupy Belgium.
Who is William Pitt?
100
Before the French Revolution, this was the name for the rights and privileges that nobles claimed over the peasantry.
What are banalites?
200
This is another name for the Society of the Friends of the Constitution.
What are the Jacobins?
200
Discontent with the first constitution, in a state of hysteria and anarchy, a handful of insurrectionaries declared they would not fight the enemy on the frontier until the enemy within had been defeated. They dragged refractory priests and other counter-revolutionaries from prison, tried them, and executed them during this end of summer event.
What are the "September Massacres"?
200
This document created a unicameral government and produced two kinds of citizen: active and passive. It was concurrent with Louis' "flight to Varennes."
What is the Constitution of 1791?
200
This statement made jointly by Prussia and Austria in the summer of 1792 declared that if any harm befell the royal family, an Austro-Prussian force would invade France.
What is the Brunswick Manifesto?
200
These were abolished in the early stages of the revolution. They are monopolistic organizations of small businessmen and craftsmen.
What is a guild?
300
Seated in the highest part of the National Convention (September 1792), this group passed the Girondins and the Jacobins as the most advanced revolutionary group.
Who are the Montagnards? (the Mountain!)
300
This coup drove the legislatures from the chambers and proclaimed a new form of government, which Bonaparte entitled the Consulate.
What is the coup d'etat of Brumaire (November 9, 1799)?
300
The government formed in France after the coup d'etat of Brumaire.
What is The Consulate?
300
This Declaration in 1791 rested on a famous if: Leopold would take military action to restore order in France if all the other European powers would join him.
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?
300
This document went far toward setting up a French national Church. Priests and bishops would be elected and would be on state salaries.
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of 1790?
400
He is considered a hero in two worlds. He took command of the French Guard at the beginning of the revolution during the summer of 1789.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
400
This was Louis XVI's attempt to join the emigre noblemen and leave his kingdom after the passing of the first Constitution in 1791.
What is "the flight to Varennes?"
400
In the Constitution of Year III, which is the third constitution after that of 1791 and 1793, two chambers of the legislation are prescribed. These are the names of those chambers.
What are the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients?
400
He was Leopold II's successor, a man much more inclined than Leopold to yield to the clamors of the aristocracy.
Who is Francis II?
400
After ending feudalism in the summer of 1789, this Declaration replaced privilege with legal equality.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
500
Once a prominent member of the Jacobins, he welcomed the purge of the Girondins and joined the Montagnards. He was beheaded in 1794 causing the Thermidorian reaction.
Who is Robespierre?
500
Between 1793 to 1794 during the Terror, the Committee on Public Safety was formed in part by Robespierre to repress anarchy, civil strife, and counter-revolution at home and win the war abroad. The Committee also busied itself with social services and public improvement. Pamphlets were issued to help farmers and give instruction in trade. In this move, the ideals of the revolution were applied to the French colonies.
What is "the abolishing of slavery?"
500
This system, adopted after the revolution, made France legally and judicially uniform.
What is The Code Napoleon?
500
In 1798, Napoleon decided to strike indirectly at the British by landing here?
What is the Nile River (Egypt)?
500
On June 20, 1789 the members of the Third Estate gathered outside of Versailles, and took this "sporting" oath.
What is the Oath on the Tennis Court?
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