This estate was the only one that was exempt from the laws of France.
What is the 1st estate?
What are Salons?
This king, largely blammed for causing the revolution due to his own mismanagement, would be the first European monarch to be overthrown and executed by his own people in nearly 100 years.
The National Assembly shook things up, taking France from an absolute monarchy, to this more limited type.
What is constitutional?
Me and the boys were barred from entering the Estates General, along with the rest of the Third Estate. We would start our own legislative body, called this.
What is the National Assembely?
This estate carried all of the tax burden.
What is the third estate?
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 caused the French to lose territory in North America, ending this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This Jacobin leader is depicted in this political cartoon sending the executioner to the guillotine after executing everyone else in France. His death would mark the end of the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
This system, which divided the citizens of France up into three classes, was one its lowest ranking members wished to reform or do away with entirely.
What is the Estates System?
Pictured here, me and the boys attacked this royal prison in Paris. Our actions would go on to be considered the start of the Revolution proper.
What is the Bastille?
Being a member of this estate means you were just born better.
What is the second estate?
Despite the country's poor finnancial state, this royal couple was living it up at their home in Versailles.
Who are Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?
This queen would be executed a few months after her husband, outraging her Austrian family.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Louis was advised to begin taxing the 1st and 2nd estate to try and solve this problem, spending more money than you have.
What is deficit spending?
Me and the boys were not invited to the Women's March on this location, home of the king and queen.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
Members of these estrates fled the country at the start of the Revolution.
What are 1st and 2nd?
What is a famine?
This author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman would be executed by the Jacobins for "counter revolutionairy thought" after claiming the revolution had not done enough to secure the rights of women.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
In an effort to shutdown counter revolutionairies, the Jacobins formed this council. It would actually result in a Reign of Terror that left 15,000 Parisians dead.
What is the Commitee on Public Safety?
Pictured here, me and the boys took this oath, swearing we would not part until a new constitution ahd been written.
What is the Tennis Court Oath
Being a member of this estate allowed Voltaire to freely spread his ideas.
What is the 2nd Estate?
The 3rd Estate's deligation to this body of advisors were furious that despite representing more than 90% of the population, they were only given one vote.
What is the Estate's General?
Let's give credit where credit is due, this radical party was largely responsible for the reign of terror, conducting numerous executions of their political enemies during the Reign of Terror. Many of them would go on to find themselves under the blade.
Who are the Jacobins?
This group, the wealthiest of the 3rd Estate, felt that they should be given equal priviledges to their 2nd Estate counterparts.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
Pictured here, me and the boys stormed the house of this Jacobin leader. His arrest and execution would mark the end of the reign of terror.
Who is Robespierre?