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The king of France during the French Revolution
Who was King Louis XVI?
French radicals sought to root out this religion during the Reign of Terror.
What was Christianity?
This party consisted of conservative Jacobins.
Who are the Girondins?
The storming of this prison in July 1789 triggered the Great Fear at the beginning of the revolution.
What was the Bastille?
The primary leader of the Montagnards. His execution ended the Reign of Terror.
Who was Maximillian Robespierre?
This law gave authorities the power to arrest anyone suspected of treason against the revolution.
What was the Law of Suspects?
This party consisted of radical Jacobins.
Who were the Montagnards?
This city in France was the most radical site of the revolution.
What was Paris?
He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety along with Robespierre. His assassination in 1794 occurred after the elimination of the Girondins.
Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
These fixed food prices were the government's attempt to satisfy the revolutionaries.
What were maximums?
This assembly took over the Republic in 1795 to bring order once again.
What was the Directory?
The National Assembly declares war on these European countries in April 1792.
What were Austria and Prussia?
He was the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary & Bohemia, and the Archduke of Austria during the revolution. He led much of Europe to war against the French radicals.
Who was Leopold II?
This proclamation in 1790 forced clergy to swear to defend the revolution.
What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
This group, led by Robespierre and Marat, was established to "eliminate enemies of the revolution."
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
This conservative region in western France raised arms to oppose the revolution as a part of the counter-revolution.
What was the Vendee?
He took power in France in 1799, ending the French Revolution and establishing his own dictatorship.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
These clergy and noblemen fled into exile to spread propaganda as part of the counter-revolution.
Who were emigres?
This name for the most radical party of the revolution also means, "without pants."
Who were the sans culottes?
This is where King Louis XVI tried to flee in 1791 before getting stopped and sent back to Paris.
What was Varennes?