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100
"Etat c'est moi" (I am the nation) is his famous phrase
Who is Louis XIV?
100
French term for middle class
What is bourgeoisie?
100
It means that science and human intelligence were of the highest importance
What is Enlightened?
100
Originally invented by a humane doctor to stop the suffering of condemned prisoners
What is the guillotine?
100
These are the three levels of the Estates General
What are the clergy, aristocrats and the middle class?
200
Hobbies included making and fixing locks
Who is Louis XVI?
200
They comprised the Third Estate.
Who are the peasants and the middle class?
200
A place where intellectuals met to discuss exciting ideas.
What is a salon?
200
Harsh laws designed to intimidate or eliminate anyone who disagreed with the Jacobins
What is the Law of Suspects?
200
The last meeting of the Estates General was roughly this many years
What is 175 years?
300
Allegedly involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Who is Marie Antoinette?
300
This royal prison and fortress was stormed by a great mob on July 14th 1789.
What is the Bastille?
300
Philosophes came into conflict with this organization and refused to accept its religious teachings
What is the church?
300
The Reign of Terror occured during these two years.
What is 1793 to 1794?
300
The Estates General meets only as a result of this
What is Royal Command?
400
Originally greeted King Louis XIV and eventually led the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
400
Three famous philosophes who had new ideas about society.
Who are Rousseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu?
400
He believed that the rulers had to work with elected parliaments
Who is Montesquieu?
400
This many people were guillotined during the Reign of Terror
What is 35 000 to 37 000?
400
As a result of the Third Estate being left out of King Louis' meetings, they vowed using this oath, to stay until they got what they wanted
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
500
Radical leader who had a skin disease, and was assasinated in his tub my Charlotte Corday.
Who ia Marat?
500
They were the poorest class who were "without britches" (pants)
Who are the sans-culottes?
500
He thought civilization was bad because it destroyed the goodness in human beings but had 9 children and gave them up for adoption.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
500
This event signified the end of the Reign of Terror.
What is the execution of Robespierre?
500
The Third Estate Declared that they would form a new government known as this
What is the National Assembly