Ancien Régime
A system where a ruler holds total power, often justified by "divine right."
What is Absolutism
A person who favors extreme or revolutionary changes to the political order.
What is a Radical
This execution device was nicknamed the "National Razor."
What is the Guillotine?
Napoleon was the consul of France for a few years before he eventually crowned himself in Notre Dame.
The capital city where the Bastille was stormed and the Committee of Public Safety held power.
What is Paris
The medieval fortress and prison stormed on July 14, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
The most radical and ruthless political club associated with the Reign of Terror.
Who were the Jacobins or Montengards
Biased or misleading information used to promote a specific political cause.
What is Propaganda
Napoleon granted legal emancipation to this group in exchange for their accepting French identity.
Who were French Jews?
The remote South Atlantic island where Napoleon was exiled in 1815 and eventually died.
What is St. Helena?
The middle class, including merchants and doctors, who belonged to the Third Estate.
Who are the Bourgeoisie?
Radical partisans from the lower classes, known for wearing long trousers instead of knee-breeches.
Who are the Sans-Culottes?
This 12-man body was created to protect the Republic from foreign and domestic "enemies."
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Napoleon’s blockade designed to destroy Great Britain's economy with tariffs.
What is the Continental System?
This vast territory in North America was sold by Napoleon to the United States in 1803 to fund his European wars.
What is Louisiana?
The meeting of all three estates called by Louis XVI to solve the financial crisis.
What is the Estates General?
This group was formed by the Third Estate after they were locked out of the Estates General.
What is the National Assembly?
This radical journalist and "Friend of the People" was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
The French principle of secularism and the separation of church and state.
What is Laïcité?
This city was burned by the retreating inhabitants in 1812 to prevent Napoleon’s army from finding winter supplies.
What is Moscow
This war, sometimes called a world war, saw France lose its colonial territories and suffer huge financial losses.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This feminist author wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" before being guillotined.
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
The revolt that resulted in the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Terror.
What is the Thermidorian Reaction?
Often called his greatest victory, this 1805 battle saw Napoleon defeat the combined forces of Russia and Austria.
What is the Battle of Austerlitz?
This city in Belgium was the site of Napoleon’s final military defeat in 1815.
What is Waterloo?