The French Revolution
The French Revolution began with the storming of this prison fortress
The Bastille
The main means of execution during the French Revolution was via this contraption
Guillotine
The issuance of the Declaration of Pillnitz
1791
The French national anthem
La Marseillaise
This daughter of Maria Theresa, who was despised by the French people, was accused of saying, "Let them eat cake," when told her people had no bread.
Marie-Antoinette
Month, day, and year that the French Revolution began
July 14, 1789
It's the name taken on by the 3rd Estate as they promised to write a constitution in 1789
The National Assembly
The execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1793
Term for nobles who fled France during the French Revolution
émigrés
This head of the Committee of Public Safety wanted to start a "republic of virtue"
Maximilien Robespierre
1789 document based on Enlightenment ideals which eventually was incorporated into the 1st French constitution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Radical political club of which Danton & Robespierre were members
The Jacobin Club
The mobs converging on the Directory are dispersed with grapeshot
1795
Ordinary French citizens who supported the French Revolution, but not silk stockings and knee britches
sans-culottes
This hero of two continents directed the Paris National Guard during the French Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette
This group associated with the "Old Regime" was called together for the first time since 1614
The Estates-General
The Levee en Masse was the institution of a national one of these in France
draft
The issuance of the Civil Constitution of Clergy
1790
French term for a military takeover or overthrow of a government
coup d'état
In essence, this French King predicted the French Revolution when he said, "Après moi, le déluge"
King Louis XV
Paris palace where the French king and queen were held under house arrest
Tuileries Palace
Among the most noted paintings of this French Revolutionary artist are "The Tennis Court Oath" and the "Death of Marat"
Jacques Louis David
The beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction
1794
Notebooks of complaints sent to Louis XVI prior to the French Revolution
Cahiers
In 1789, Louis XVI fired this capable finance minister
Jacques Necker