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This Austrian-born former queen was guillotined in October 1793.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The Estates-General opened in this town, home to the royal court, in May 1789.
What is Versailles?
The Republican Calendar's tenth-day rest replaced this Christian weekly day of rest.
What is Sunday?
Their name meant "without knee breeches"; these urban radicals included workers, artisans, and shopkeepers.
Who are the sans-culottes?
Royalists wanted to restore this form of government after the Terror.
What is a monarchy?
The Convention tried this former king and sent him to the guillotine in January 1793.
Who is Louis XVI?
The Women's March forced the royal family to leave Versailles and move to this city.
What is Paris?
Under decimal time, a complete day was divided into this many hours.
What is ten?
This revolutionary court tried political crimes during the Terror.
What is the Revolutionary Tribunal?
In 1793 the Convention postponed democratic constitution and declared a dictatorial government until 'this' was over (however, they were the ones who got to define what 'this' meant and when it ended).
What is an emergency?
This defender of virtue and terror was overthrown during Thermidor in July 1794.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This Paris cathedral was turned into a Temple of Reason during the Revolution.
What is Notre-Dame?
Each of the Republican Calendar's twelve months contained this many days.
What is thirty?
Robespierre belonged to this political club associated with radical republican government.
What is the Jacobin Club?
Under this 1793 law, suspicious speech or associations could lead to arrest even without an armed rebellion.
What is the Law of Suspects?
Louis XVI dismissed this popular finance minister shortly before the storming of the Bastille.
Who is Jacques Necker?
During the Terror, prisoners were killed in mass drownings at this western French city.
What is Nantes?
The Republican Calendar counted Year I from the beginning of the republic in this year.
What is 1792?
The Convention gave this committee emergency powers to coordinate the war effort and defend the republic.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
A young general's troops crushed the October 1795 uprising with this cannon ammunition made of clusters of iron bullets.
What is grapeshot?
This revolutionary leader urged less repression but was himself guillotined with Camille Desmoulins in April 1794.
Who is Georges Danton?
Army recruitment and religious grievances helped spark a major rebellion in this western French region in 1793.
What is the Vendee?
Robespierre led the festival of this cult, which honored a creator and linked belief to moral duty.
What is the Cult of the Supreme Being?
These republicans opposed radical Parisian pressure and lost their struggle for power against the radical Jacobins in 1793.
Who are the Girondins?
This young Corsican may have been compact, but he had no shortage of ambition. He was determined to make a big name for himself, even if he had to do it in small steps, in small shoes. He rose above the revolutionary chaos, stood head and shoulders above his rivals (metaphorically), and had a reign considerably longer than he was tall. Though his enemies eventually cut him down to size, they did so only after he had cast an enormous shadow over the coming 19th century.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?*
*despite his reputation, most now believe he was actually average height. His reputation of being short comes from British Propaganda.