Before the deluge
The royal palace outside of Paris in which the rich nobility lived in splendor.
What was Versailles?
To address the many problems plaguing France, the king was forced to call this.
What is an "Estates-General"?
French king who went to the guillotine.
Who was Louis XVI?
members of Paris's poor working class. The word means, "those without knee breeches."
Who were the "sans-culottes"?
Napoleon was born on this island?
What is Corsica?
A state of financial ruin or poverty. French support for the American revolution almost caused this.
What is bankruptcy?
This event marks the beginning of the French Revolution. It is celebrated each 14th of July in France.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
A hero of the American Revolution, he was a champion of the French Revolution until it became too radical.
Who was Lafayette?
This event marked the establishment of the new civic religion of France.
What was the Festival of the Supreme Being?
Napoleon was this age when he began his campaign to invade Italy.
What is 27?
The class of society that lived in towns and were neither peasant nor noble.
What is the "bourgeoisie"?
The statement on human rights drawn up by the National Assembly in 1791.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
Along with Antoine de Saint-Just, this radical Jacobin directed the Reign of Terror.
Who was Maximilian Robespierre?
The 11th month of the Revolutionary calendar, it covered the hot days of summer.
What was Thermidor?
Napoleon took his crown from this Pope and placed it on his own head.
Who was Pius VII?
The unpaid work on roads that peasants could be forced to do, sometimes for weeks at a time.
What is the "corvee"?
This institution was created by the moderate Danton to help save the revolution, it effectively functioned as a dictatorship.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
Seeking revenge for the arrest of the Girondins, this woman stabbed Marat to death as he lay in his bathtub.
Who was Marie Charlotte de Corday?
The artist and Jacobin who painted "The Death of Marat" and also portraits of Napoleon and his family.
Who was Jacques-Louis David?
The coup in which Napoleon and two others siezed power from the two legislative councils. It is named after the date from the Revolutionary calendar.
What is the 19th Brumaire?
The name for the recommendations that each estate sent to the before an Estates-General.
What are "cahiers"?
Hoping to make his reforms permanent, Napoleon convinced the French Senate to proclaim him this in 1802.
What was First Consul for Life?
A leader of the Vendean "Royal and Catholic Army", called the Saint of Anjou.
Who was Jacques Cathelineau?
The hymn or anthem of the French Revolution and the national song of France.
What is the "Marseilles"?
As a young captain of artillery, Napoleon helped take back this coastal city from the British and French royalists.
What is Toulon?