French Society
Lowest Estate, made up of poor to the rich middle-class
Third Estate
Oath taken by members of the Third Estate to keep meeting until a constitution is created.
Tennis Court Oath
Man who was behind the Reign of Terror.
Maximillian Robespierre
Place of Napoleon's second exile.
St. Helena
Committee that is established to help guide the government. Eventually is controlled by Robespierre.
Committee of Public Safety
Meeting of the three Estates. Each Estate only has one vote.
Estates-General
Place were a mob of Parisian women go to "escort" King Louis back to Paris.
Versailles
Wife of the King of France. Accidently stepped on her executioners foot.
Marie Antoinette
Name placed on Napoleon's leaving of Russia after his invasion fails.
Great Retreat
Robespierre's idea of a democratic-republic run by good citizens. Demands that citizens be good or die.
Republic of Virtue
The main political club that led the Radical Revolution.
Jacobin
Notre Dame
King of France during the early revolution.
Louis XVI
Napoleon's last defeat.
Battle of Waterloo
Policy that European powers adopt to ensure other monarchs in Europe stay in power.
Principle of Intervention
Changes made to French government, courts, and society by Napoleon.
French Civil Code or Code Napoleon
Name of Robespierre's plan to remove domestic threats in France.
Reign of Terror
Man who led the Paris Commune and pressured the National Assembly to make reforms.
Georges Danton
Place where Napoleon's forces meet Lord Admiral Nelson for the first time.
Battle of the Nile
Napoleon's birthplace.
Corsica
First declaration made during the French Revolution. Declared certain freedoms to people in France.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
The name for the call to raise and army issued by the Committee of Public Safety.
Levee en Masse
Writer of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen.
Olympe de Gouges
Battle that led Napoleon to give up his invasion of Great Britain. Lord Admiral Nelson strikes again!
Battle of Trafalgar
Number of days in a week under the New French Calendar.
Ten