Revolution Threatens the French King
King of France from 1774, deposed in 1792, guillotined in 1793 ...
Answer: Louis XVI.
A statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France’s National Assembly ...
Answer: Declaration of the Rights of Man.
A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon ...
Answer: Napoleonic Code.
Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy ...
Answer: Continental System.
A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others ...
Answer: balance of power.
One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution – the First Estate consisting of the clergy; the Second Estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population ...
Answer: estate.
A committee established during the French Revolution to identify “enemies of the republic” ...
Answer: Committee of Public Safety.
A direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal ...
Answer: plebiscite.
A conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain ...
Answer: Peninsular War.
Austrian statesman: 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, 1821-48 ...
Answer: Klemens von Metternich.
The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution ...
Answer: Old Regime.
French lawyer and revolutionary leader. Who am I?
Answer: Maximilien Robespierre.
A government-run public school in France ...
Answer: lycee.
The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land ...
Answer: scorched-earth policy.
An international conference (1814-15) held at Vienna after Napoleon I’s banishment to Elba, with Metternich as the dominant figure, aimed at territorial resettlement and restoration to power of the crowned heads of Europe ...
Answer: Congress of Vienna.
A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people ...
Answer: National Assembly.
A period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction ...
Answer: Reign of Terror.
Corsican-born French general: emperor of France as Napoleon I, 1804-15. Who am I?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte (or Napoleon I).
The brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France ...
Answer: Hundred Days.
The hereditary right of a monarch to rule ...
Answer: legitimacy.
Queen of France, 1774-93, and wife of Louis XVI, executed in the French Revolution. Who am I?
Answer: Marie Antoinette.
French revolutionary leader. Who am I?
Answer: Georges Danton.
An 1805 battle in which Napoleon’s forces defeated a combined Austrian and Russian army ...
Answer: Battle of Austerlitz.
A village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: scene of Napoleon’s decisive defeat, June 18, 1815 ...
Answer: Waterloo.
A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions ...
Answer: Congress of Vienna.