People
Inventor of the guillotine
Who was Dr. Joseph Guillotin?
The period of France from July 1793-July 1794 where nearly 40,000 executions by guillotine took place
What is the Reign of Terror?
The deposed king who was found guilty of treason
Who was King Louis XVI (the sixteenth)?
_______________ was invented as an enlightened, humane form of execution
What is the guillotine?
To pay off part of the national debt, the Jacobin Club took back land from the church and did this with it
What is sold it?
Military general chose by the Directory to lead France's army
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Nobles and supporters of the monarchy who fled France after the French Revolution
What are emigres?
This group represented 85% of those executed during the Reign of Terror
Who were peasants / the Third Estate?
The Jacobins created their new calendar and hurt the church by leaving out this day of the week
What are Sundays?
This is the number of people drafted by the Jacobins to help fight against Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, Holland, and Spain
What is 300,000 people?
Author of the Declaration on the Rights of Women, executed during the Reign of Terror
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
The legislative body that was formed after the Third Estate made the Tennis Court Oath during the meeting of the Estates-General
What is the National Assembly?
The widowed queen
Who was Marie Antoinette?
The event where rioters rooted out royal sympathizers from the church and nobility, killing over 1000 priests/nobles
What were the September Massacres?
A radical political organization that led the National Convention and eventually produced the Reign of Terror
Who are the Jacobins / what was the Jacobin Club?
Pope during the French Revolution and Reform period of France
Who was Pope Pius VI (the sixth)?
Commoners who didn't wear fancy "knee breeches"
What are sans-culottes?
The Head of the Committee of Public Safety whose death ended the Reign of Terror
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
Another action taken against the Roman Catholic Church, the Jacobin club did this to the churches of Paris
What is closed them down? (or boarded them up)
This is the legislative body that was formed under the Constitution of 1791
What is the Legislative Assembly?
Author of "Friend of the People" newspaper who called for the deaths of royal sympathizers
Who was Jean Paul Marat?
The document written at the beginning of France's reform period that listed out the rights of French citizens
What is the Declaration on the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
A lawyer and powerful speaker among the Jacobin Club whose allies were too afraid to speak up for him
Who was Georges Danton?
The formation of this legislative body occurred after King Louis XVI was deposed and France was declared a Republic
What is the National Convention?
After the Reign of Terror, this was the executive body of 5 men in charge of leading France
What is the Directory?