Vocabulary
In France, everyone who is not a member of the nobility or clergy.
What is the Third Estate?
a king or queen who has unchecked authority to do whatever he or she wants without any restrictions
What is an absolute monarch?
Enlightenment thinkers who believed in justice and freedom.
What are Philosophes?
An unlikable person due to being Austrian, accused of interfering with political decisions, and building a make-believe peasant village at Le Petit Trianon
What the royal family did after the women marched to Versailles.
What is return to Paris?
An assembly made up of representatives from France's Three Estates.
What is the Estates-General?
a revival of ancient Greek and Roman ideas, especially in literature, art, or architecture
What is neoclassicism?
Which of the following would have been OPPOSED by the philsophes?
- freedom of the press
- religious tolerance
- abolition of government
What is abolition of government?
The Sun King
Who is Louis XIV?
The period of time in which many people were executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
What is regime?
a system of rights or justice that is shared by all people and that comes from nature, not the rules of society
What is natural law?
This philosophe said that "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
Who is Rousseau?
A famous (possibly fictitious) quote by Marie Antoinette
What is "Then let them eat cake"?
What the Jacobins did because the calendar was associated with Christianity.
What is establish a new calendar?
a government by a king or queen whose power is limited by a constitution
What is a constitutional memory?
What is tyrannical?
Under Louis XIV's reign, this was somewhat uncomfortable, due to small rooms, and difficult for courtiers trying to win the king's favor.
What is life at Versailles?
The place in which the deputies of the Estates-General took their oath not to separate until they had written a constitution.
What are the Tennis courts of Versailles?
a radical journalist
Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
a government in which people elect representatives to rule for them
a group of representatives with the power to make laws for the country
What is the Legislative Assembly?
The first reform demanded by the Third Estate's deputies.
What is one vote per deputy, no matter which estate he belonged to?
The building that was stormed by the sans culottes when they killed the leader of its defenders.
What is the Bastille?
What are the titles that Napoleon has during his lifetime?
Emperor of France, General, First Consul/Consul for Life