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Vocabulary
People
Places
Punishments or Consequence
Potpourri
100
Top of the Third Estate
What is bourgeoisie?
100
King of France during the French Revolution
Who is Louis XVI (the Sixteenth)?
100
Storming of this building became a symbol of the Revolution
What is the Bastille?
100
The punishment handed down for being a monarch during the French Revolution
What is death/beheading (by Guillotine)?
100
This group made up the vast majority of French society
What is the Third Estate?
200
Notebooks that listed grievances
What are cahiers?
200
Head of the National Guard
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
200
Ornate palace seen as a symbol of the over-indulgence of the monarchy; all three Estates met here
What is Versailles?
200
Punishment for being married to the monarch during the Revolution and overspending on clothes, food and an extravagant lifestyle
What is death/beheading (by Guillotine)?
200
Napoleon's path to power: Lieutenant, First Consul, _______
What is Emperor?
300
Famous oath of the National Assembly which swore to create a Constitution
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
300
Working class French who wanted more radical changes
Who are the Jacobins?
300
British and Prussian forces defeat Napoleon at this wet-named battle
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
300
Punishment, after being forced to abdicate power, which was handed down to Napoleon
What is exile?
300
Wife of Louis XVI
Who is Marie Antoinette?
400
Nobles, clergy and others who fled revolutionary France
What are emigres (emigrants)?
400
First and last name of the vertically challenged military leader who assumed control at the end of the French Revolution
Who is Napolean Bonaparte?
400
Island where Napoleon was born
What is Corsica?
400
Punishment for Robespierre after causing increased fear among French citizens, and calling for the heads of 40,000 in one year
What is death/beheading (by the Guillotine)?
400
The principle of legitimacy restored this kind of ruler to European countries, instituted by the Congress of Vienna
What is monarch?
500
Kind of spending partially responsible for France's financial crisis
What is deficit spending?
500
Known as "the incorruptible", called for the heads of others to come off and later lost his own
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
Place of Napoleon's exile after Waterloo
What is St. Helena?
500
The political consequence for having abused and trampled on the rights of the masses of France; the first of its kind in Europe
What is revolution?
500
Napoleon was unable to conquer this European country
What is Britain?