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Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Robespierre
The Revolution
Reign of Terror
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No evidence that this remark was made after Marie was informed peasants were starving.
Who said 'let them eat cake'?
100
Married Louis XVI in 1770.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
100
Guillotined after a night of agony.
How was Robespierre killed?
100
Location of the Revolution.
Where is France?
100
This man lead the Reign of Terror.
Who was Robespierre?
200
Austria.
Where was Marie Antoinette from?
200
Modest, pious, and virtuous.
What were Louis XVI's virtues?
200
Lawyer.
What was Robespierre's job before he became a politician?
200
Almost a decade.
How long was the French Revolution?
200
The main method of execution during the Reign of Terror.
What was the guillotine?
300
Marie rudely called this woman 'Madame Etiquette'.
Who was the mistress of ceremonies?
300
The king before Louis XVI, set him up for disaster.
Who was Louis XV?
300
Arras, France.
Where was Robespierre born?
300
Attacked on the 14th of July, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
300
Estimated to be between 30,00 and 40,000.
What was the death toll of the Reign of Terror?
400
Madame Deficit.
What was Marie Antoinette's nickname?
400
You surely mean my brother, for he is the clever boy!
What did the young Louis XVI say after he was complimented?
400
Charlotte.
Who is Robespierre's sister?
400
The replacement of monsieur and madame during the revolution.
What was citizen?
400
Also lead by the rest of the Committee of Public Safety, composed of Jacobins.
Was Robespierre the only to lead the Reign of Terror?
500
'I'm sorry, I did not mean to do it.'
What were Marie Antoinette's last words?
500
Bankrupting France, plotting against the Revolution, trying to flee, and accepting a constitution he despised.
What was Louis XVI charged with?
500
The revolutionary-dictator, famously Jacobin.
Who was Maximilien-Francios-Marie-Isididore de Robespierre?
500
A government run by the public, based around voting. Uninterrupted in France since 1958.
What is democracy?
500
Possibly the only guillotining where the victim watched the blade instead of being faced downwards.
What was Robespierre's execution?