Bonaparte
A dictator who was in charge of France at the end of French Revolution.
Napoleon
Who became leader of the radical wing of the revolutionary government?
Maximilien Robespierre
Third Estate deputies are locked out of the meeting hall - what happened next?
The Tennis Court Oath
What was the rallying cry of the French Revolution?
Liberty, equality, and fraternity
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of which movement?
Haitian independence movement.
Who was disadvantaged by the Napoleonic Codes?
Women
What is the tax on land/income called?
Taille
Document with 17 rights based on equality and liberty
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The Seven Years’ War was between?
France against Britain and Prussia
What is the Law of Suspects?
targeted émigrés, nobles, suspended public officials, and anyone who spoke or acted as ‘enemies of freedom’.
What was the Battle of 13 Vendémiaire
A royalist insurrection against the Directory
"Terror is the Order of the Day"-Maxiemilien Robespierre
What method did he use to instill fear?
The Guillotine
Tuileries Palace
Réveillon owned a shop, what did it sell?
Paris wallpaper factory
Name the system of government before and after the Revolution
France was an absolute monarchy and became a Republic
What was Napoleons Coup d'Etat?
Sudden seizure of the weakened government
Which Finance Minister had to import 148,000 tonnes of foreign grain to avoid disaster
Finance Minister Necker
Who was the radical leader of the Sans-Culottes
Jacques Hébert
People could legally voice their complaints - what was this called?
Cahiers de doléances
What was the name of the paper money of France?
assignats
Napolean's 3 Big Mistakes
1. Continental System
2. The Peninsula War
3. Invasion of Russia
When did the storming of the Bastille happen?
July 14 1789
Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot belonged to?
The Age of Enlightenment
What was venality?
Paid to obtain your seat/power
When did the Flight to Varennes occur?
20th June 1791