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French Revolution Vocabulary

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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HUMAN RIGHTS ARE THE BASIC RIGHTS GIVEN TO ALL PEOPLE.

TYRANNY IS THE UNJUST USE OF POWER IN THIS CASE THE FRENCH MONARCHY

King Louis was a extravagant and weak ruler during the French Revolution who was the last King of France and was beheaded by the guillotine

QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE WAS...

  • The Austrian-born Queen of France,
  • Who like her husband was a weak and extravagant leader.
  • She was executed by the guillotine

THE ESTATES ARE...

  • Social Classes
  • Clergy (preist, Bishops, Cardinals etc. made up the first Estate
  • The aristocracy made up the second Estate
  • Everyone else made up the third Estate.

THE ESTATE GENERAL IS...

  • The French Legislative body which consisted of representatives from
  • Each estate.

ARISTOCRACY ARE...

NOBLES WHICH MADE UP THE SECOND ESTATE.

BOURGEOISIE ARE...

THE MIDDLE-CLASS WHO STOOD ON THE TOP OF THE THIRD ESTATE.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WAS...

  • The government that consisted of representatives from the third estate.

THE FALL OF THE BASTILLE WAS....

  • When a crowd of people stormed amd raided the prison/armory
  • Which was a symbol of the King's Power and stole the weapons

TENNIS COURT OATH WAS...

  • The writting of the new constitution on Louis XVI indoor Tennis court
  • After Louis XVI kicked them out the Palace of Versailles.

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN WAS....

  • Written by Marquis De Lafeyette with ideas from Thomas Jefferson
  • Stated that the Government got its power from the people, not the king
  • It also stated basic freedoms.

NATIONAL CONVENTION WAS...

  • The convention that declared France a republic based n universal male
  • Sufferage.
  • They inited armies torotect the rev. From other European armies.
  • They also evoked the guillotine to get rid of enemies from within France.

RADICALS WERE...

  • PEOPLE WHO FAVORED QUICK AND FAR-REACHING CHANGES TO SET UP A
  • New government.

JACOBINS WERE...

  • A radical revolutionary group.

ROBESPIERRE WAS...

  • A lawyer who became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety
  • Who brought about the Reign of Terror
  • He was executed by guillotine.

REGIN OF TERROR WAS...

  • The mass execution of 25,000-40,000 people bu the guillotine

THE DIRECTORY WAS...

  • A council that consisted of five men that ruled France.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WAS...

  • A renowned French general who Became The Dictator Of France
  • And latter the emperor of France.

COUP D' ETAT IS...

THE SWIFT SEIZURE F GOVERNMENT BY SOMEONE USUALLY WITHIN GOV.

DICTATORSHIP IS...

  • THE RULE BY SOMEONE, BONAPARTE WHO HAD ABSOLUTE POWER
  • Over a country, France.

NAPOLEONIC CODE WAS...

  • A UNIFORM SET OF LAWS THAT RESTORED POWER TO CATHOIC CHURCH
  • Set up banking systems and ended gov. Corruption.

COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY WAS...

A DE FACTO GOVERNMENT DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR.