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Old Regime
It's French to Me
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Napoleon
100
A Social class of the Old Regime.
What is an estate?
100
Nobles and others who had fled France and hoped to undo the Revolution.
What are the Emigres?
100
Third Estate delegates that passed laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
What is the National Assembly?
100
Members of a radical political organization under Marat.
What are the Jacobins?
100
This was an agreement between Napoleon and the Pope to reestablish the Catholic Church in France.
What is the Concordat?
200
They comprised the first estate.
What is the Church?
200
"Those without knee breeches"
What are sans-culottes?
200
Pledge of the National Assembly to not leave until a new French constitution had been drawn up.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
200
This machine was used to behead the King, Queen, and many french citizens deemed enemies of the state.
What is the guillotine?
200
This gave France a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
300
They comprised the second estate.
What are rich nobles?
300
"Blow to the state"
What is coup d'etat?
300
This prison was dismantled as a great symbolic act of revolution.
What is the Bastille?
300
Period of Robespierre's rule that can be described as a dictatorship where many enemies of the state were executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
Napoleon's most disastrous mistake.
What is the invasion of Russia?
400
This was the middle class of the Old Regime.
What is the bourgeoisie?
400
Government-run schools
What are lycees?
400
This document declared that all french citizens should have "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression."
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
400
They believed the King Louis XVI should spend his life in prison.
What are the Girondists?
400
Napoleon's last chance to take power ended with this battle (and defeat).
What is Waterloo?
500
This estate paid half of their income in taxes.
What is the third estate?
500
"Madame Deficit"
Who is Marie Antoinette?
500
This was the new legislative body of that had the power to create laws and to approve or reject declarations of war.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
500
This is considered the end of the Reign of Terror.
What is Robespierre's execution?
500
This meeting redrew the map of Europe in order to balance power across the continent.
What is the Congress of Vienna?