Personalities
This personality was considered a weak minded leader and ill-informed. Spending public expenditure for a lavish lifestyle.
Who is King Louis XVI?
This involved the meeting of representatives from three estates to approve a new tax law
What is the Estates-General assembly?
This was a form of capital punishment
What is the Guillotine?
a _________ is known as a church tax
what is a tithe?
This person was appointed to lead the French army against the forces of Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This event became a great symbol of the French Revolution
What is Storming the Bastille?
this refers to the demand of equality, liberty, and democracy
What were the enlightenment ideas?
Napoleon was born in the Mediterranean island of __________
What is Corisco?
This personality was unpopular with the French and referred to Louis as “the poor man” and sometimes set the clock forward an hour to be rid of his presence.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This involved the separation of the third class to form a unified body to pass laws in the name of the French people
What is the National Assembly?
these were the middle class—they were bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans.
Who were the bourgeoisie?
'Men are born and live free' is known as what declaration?
What is Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This personality was a lawyer who was known for his devotion to the rights of poor people in Paris.
Who is George Danton?
This was the dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non privileged classes for a new constitutional pledge
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This term is also refered to as a 'blow to the state'
What is a Coup d'état
Which famous author/novelist included ideas about the French revolution?
Who was Charles Dickens?
This person said
" the basis of popular government in time of revolution is both virtue and terror"is.
Who is Robespierre?
This event involved the hiring of outlaws to terrorise peasants
What is the Great Fear?
This refers to total control and rule of a sovereignty
What is absolutism?
one of the enlightenment ideas personalities was ______________
Who is Rousseau, Comte De Antraigues, or Volitaire