PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FRENCH REVOLUTION VOCABULARY
Human Rights are basic rights given to all people.
The unjust use of power is called tyranny.
King Louis XVI was a government ruler who disliked rebellion, pulled the Estates General Together.
Queen Marie Antionette was an Austrian born queen of France.
Estate, or social class had everybody in France placed in one.
An assembly made up of representatives from all three estates are called Estates-General.
A noble is an Aristocracy, they made up the second estate.
Bourgeoisie is the middle class, they stood at the top of the third estate.
The National Assembly was a government consisting of delegates from the third Estate.
King Louis XVI banned the Third Estate from meetings with estates General causing a huge rebellion were a large where a large crowd set prisoners free from a French prison named Bastille. This chain of events were called the Fall of Bastille.
When the king shut out the National Assembly from gathering, so they met on the Kings Tennis courts to write a new constitution called The Tennis Court Oath.
The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen was a document written by Marquis de Lafayette that said the government got its power from the people.
Radicals created a new government called the National Convention and it declared France a republic based male suffrage.
People who favor quick and reaching changes are called Radicals.
Jacobins were a radical Revolutionary group.
The Committee of Public Safety was created in March 1793 by the National Convention and it formed the Executive government in France during the Reign of Terror.
The leader of the Committee of Public Safety was Maximilian Robespierre.
The Reign of Terror was a violent period were citizens who were deemed "enemies of the Revolution" were executed.
From 1795-1799 France was ruled by five moderate men known as the Directory.
Napoleon Bonaparte staged a coup d' état and took the title of First Consul.
A swift seizure of government usually by someone within the government is also known as a coup d' état.
Dictatorship is a type of government that it's authority comes from a single person.
A uniform system of laws written by Napoleon is called the Napoleonic Code.
