People
He was King of France during the time of the French Revolution.
This was composed of the Clergy.
What is the First Estate?
This palace is now an Art Museum.
What is the Louvre?
These people had time and money to meet and discuss ideas, politics, history, etc.
What are the philosophes?
The French King persecuted these people for not being Catholic.
Who are the Calvinist Protestants?
She didn't want the diamond necklace, but they took her head anyway.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
These people only paid a little bit of tax and were given land to develop.
Who are the nobles?
This is where the king and queen of France lived. It was 22 km from Paris.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
He believed that an ideal government was one in which no one person or group could hold too much power.
Who is Montesquieu?
Louis XVI inherited these from his father and grandfather.
What are economic problems?
He fought in the American Revolution and led the National Guard.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
These people were the merchants and professional people in the Third Estate.
Who are the bourgeoise?
This place fell to an angry mob and the people inside were freed.
What is the Bastille?
He believed that modern society had destroyed people's natural goodness, but that reason could change things for the better.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
This happened because the crops failed.
What is a famine?
These people led the March on Versailles.
Who are women from Paris?
This is the promise made by the Third Estate when they broke away from the Estates General meeting.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The Industrial Revolution happening in this country affected the textile industry in France.
What is Britain?
He believed that a ruler could rule well if he was enlightened.
The common people were suffering because of this.
What is poverty?
This person turned the new Republic of France into his own empire.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
These people represented the majority of the population of France.
Who are the common people?
This is where the Third Estate met and promised not to stop until France had a new government.
What is the tennis court?
A time, or "Age", in French history when many new ideas were being talked about.
Each Estate had one of these at the Estates General meeting?
What is a vote?